Did the San Leandro police cheif try to cover up a hit and run?

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Speaker 1: And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy waings in Culver City.

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Speaker 2: John, First they were in the sewer, then they were in the river. Now Fox eleven documents a homeless person taking over a bus shelter.

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Speaker 1: Where are they not?

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Speaker 3: Well? Good question. Hospitals, that's where jail?

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Speaker 4: Are you sure?

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Speaker 1: Where have you been to an er recently?

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Speaker 3: Good point? Okay, Then on the second floor of a hospital.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Talk to anyone who's ever worked at the VA. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well, Randy, there is one town in northern California that keeps making the news for all the wrong reasons, and that is San Leandro, right next to Oakland. And Dan Neis of ABC seven has been doing a little digging and has found a whole bunch of weird stuff going on, including that story we did yesterday where the San Leandro petie pick up a homeless person who had not committed a crime and dump him in the city of Dumpy.

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Speaker 3: And now dan Ney's.

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Speaker 2: Reports on the chief of police in San Leandro possibly getting special treatment because they tried to cover up a hit and run that she caused when she clipped someone's mirror on the freeway.

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Speaker 1: Don't we have a city council member who just did something similar.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, that was in the La City Council. The president, Marquise Harris Dawson apparently did something like an illegal U turn in a school zone, got pulled over by the school police, and tried to get out of that, and then when that didn't happen, he decided that it's just racist that that's what happened. Let's get back to Dan Noise in part two of his deep dive into the San Leandro Police Department. Here's ABC seven in the Bay.

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Speaker 5: Gee, if you have to answer to the public, you realize.

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Speaker 2: That right nobody likes getting in people's face is better than Dan Noise.

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Speaker 1: You know, as we sit here listening to this, something just occurred to me. Yeah, there is an employee in that city who clearly has a bone to pick with management, and there is a source that's leaking like a sieve.

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Speaker 2: Well all of this comes from the internal affairs officer who wrote a massive complaint about the police department that he is supposed to be investigating.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure it's him.

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Speaker 6: The ABC seven It team questions San Leandro's police chief about why she left the scene of an off duty accident in her unmarked police car on inner Safe. She told the CHP she didn't realize her mirror had clipped another car.

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Speaker 3: But how do you not realize that?

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Speaker 1: Well, I can imagine if you were asleep or drunk not knowing, But I don't know if that's any better.

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Speaker 6: Her mirror had clipped another car.

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Speaker 7: But there is more of the story.

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Speaker 8: Dan Nois is here with an investigation you'll see only on set.

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Speaker 5: And Dan well Ama and Dan, a sergeant from the San Leandro PD Internal Affairs, first raised it.

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Speaker 2: I feel like Dan, who's covered the Bay Area for many, many, many many years, got a little taste of what's going on in San Leandro with the whole Brian Assevito thing, and thought I better just keep around here for a while, see what's going on. Seems like a really interesting little city.

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Speaker 5: Well Ama and Dan, a sergeant from the San Leandro PD Internal Affairs first raised this in other issues. In a nine page complaint filed with the city manager last month. He says in this case, the chief was treated differently than the rank and file would.

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Speaker 9: Have been nine emergency. What are you reporting?

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Speaker 7: I just got hit by a police officer.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine if you were the person who got hit?

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Speaker 3: She's pretty piste dafty.

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Speaker 5: Ryan was heading home with her husband and two children after a Giant's game, eastbound five eighty approaching Dublin close to eleven o'clock that night. She drove in the fast lane through a construction zone as traffic picked up to forty five or fifty miles an hour. Ryan told the CHP, this silver Jeep was flying on the shoulder, veered into her lane and clipped her driver's side mirror.

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Speaker 2: That sounds pretty violent. That also sounds super illegal. You're not supposed to be driving in the shoulder.

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Speaker 10: And I mean he smoked my mirror.

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Speaker 7: It woke up both my kids instantly, my four year olds. When kids sleep, they're sleeping.

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Speaker 11: What did it sound like like a shotgun?

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Speaker 3: And you know it sounded like that with both cars.

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Speaker 1: If you're the cop, why keep going. It's not like the person in the car whose mirror you took off is unaware that it happened.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, it was really it scared me. We got off at the next actident so I can calm down because I was like, it startled me.

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Speaker 1: Ryan, she was about to white knuckle it, but she had kids in the back and it's like, maybe we need to take a breather here.

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Speaker 5: Ryan told the CHP the jeep had police lights flashing in the rear window, but that after the impact, the driver turned off all the vehicle's lights.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that funny. We've all seen that a time or two. Most police officers and most CHP officers don't do this, but we have all seen where someone lights up to cross an intersection and then turns the lights right off.

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Speaker 1: If you had access to lights and sirens on your car, would you ever sit in traffic? Good point?

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Speaker 5: Quickly crossed four lanes and exit at the highway.

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Speaker 2: I'd be having the four or five part like the Red Sea every single day.

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Speaker 3: You're still not supposed to do that, though.

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Speaker 5: Quickly crossed four lanes and exit at the highway.

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Speaker 7: He's not pulling over or anything.

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Speaker 5: Her husband was able to catch the license plate and the CHP ran the number who hit me? Because you guys can look that stuff up.

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Speaker 12: It's from family.

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Speaker 2: Andrew so she already has learned from the CHP based on running the plates, whose vehicle this was? This unmarked police car?

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Speaker 1: They could figure it out immediately.

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Speaker 10: Police officer Okay, so absolutely ridiculous.

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Speaker 5: It turned out to be an unmarked San Leandro police car assigned to Chief Angela Averett. Why didn't you stop.

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Speaker 3: Your car when you hit that car last May?

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Speaker 5: Why didn't you stop through a spot?

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Speaker 3: You know, if you ignored Dan Noise, He's just going to keep coming at you.

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Speaker 1: That's what he does.

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Speaker 3: But I'm telling you what happened right here.

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Speaker 2: There must have been some memo that went out after Brian Asevito incriminated himself on ABC seven. Nobody talks to Dan Noise about anything in this city.

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Speaker 1: No especially if there's potential criminal liability.

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Speaker 5: Through a spokesperson, Avertt declined my request for an interview, so I met her after work. She if you have to answer to the public, you realize that, right, Chief.

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Speaker 3: That you know what I need to have on the hot dial. I need to download it.

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Speaker 2: But anytime we do a story like this, it's good to remember Dan Nois's origin stories. When he was doing this to Gavin Newsom with the drinking rumors.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Gavin Newsom hates his guts.

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Speaker 5: Chief Averett didn't answer my questions, but told the CHP she was driving home got stuck in the construction traffic.

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Speaker 2: You mean when she was driving on the shoulder going seventy miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she thought she was like wonder Woman and was in an invisible plane.

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Speaker 5: Started to Urien's chest pain and wanted to expedite her return home, so she began to travel in the center median. The investigator asked if she went to the hospital. Chief Averett answered she did not. The chest pains had subsided after exiting the freeway.

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Speaker 1: There's a likely story. The heartburn went away, so I slowed down after I took off a mirror and didn't stop.

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Speaker 5: Avertt also told the investigator she did not recall hearing any noises from the impact.

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Speaker 7: There's no way. What do you mean, There's no way in hell that you did not hear our mirrors hit.

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Speaker 2: You could do it even if you are blasting music at the loudest possible volume in your car. You would hear if you clipped a mirror.

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Speaker 1: How did she not hear that? Did she grow up in Hiroshima? What happened to her earing.

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Speaker 2: I think it's very likely she did hear it and she said, ah, crap, and just decided to keep going.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she's a big concert goer and has no hearing left.

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Speaker 7: There's no way in hell that you did not hear our mirrors hit. You could do a test drive two cars going one going fifty five, one going sixty five and hit mirrors and tell me you don't hear anything. Do a suburban in a jeep. You'll hear it.

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Speaker 5: I promise I share the CHP hit and run investigative report with police practice. This expert Rich Korea, former commander at the SFP.

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Speaker 1: This is the same genius from yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Well, Dan's an efficient guy. He figured out how to get several stories out of this one report.

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Speaker 1: By the way, as we sit here listening to this, had the person just stopped and given a business card out, the city would have paid for it and no one would have bad it any Because if a black and white in pursuit causes damage to a car, I would assume those sorts of things happen and I would have thought nothing of it. I would have just gotten it fixed, and I certainly wouldn't have called the news.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing here. There's a world of difference between an accident that happens all the time, including occasionally with a police vehicle, and clipping someone's mirror and taken off, and when you're the top cop in the city of San Leandro, it doesn't look good, doesn't.

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Speaker 1: No, that's when it's obvious that you believe that rules just don't apply.

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Speaker 5: Former commander at the SFPD. When I'm driving in my car and the passenger mirror is three feet away, Max, I think I'm gonna hear that.

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Speaker 13: Well, that's common sense. The law is you know, did you knowingly? And that's a proof question. But someone should take a close look at these things.

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Speaker 5: Damage to both vehicles, mirrors matched up. But the CHP decided not to file charges because of average statements that she had no knowledge of the reported hit and run.

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Speaker 1: Something must have been going on, either she was eight for something important or I don't know. Do they still have three Martine lunches?

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Speaker 5: The attorney for the San Leandro Police Officers Association believes the chief is getting preferential treatment, not facing the same scrutiny that her officers receive.

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Speaker 14: It just absolutely destroys the fabric of morale in the department. To think that your leader, to think that your chief believes that.

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Speaker 11: She or he is above the law.

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Speaker 14: And that's what's going on in San Leandro.

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Speaker 5: Daphney Ryan says she called.

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Speaker 1: I wonder how much that jeep is? Good question.

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Speaker 5: Daphney Ryan says she called San Leandro Police that night, reached Watch Commander Lieutenant Antoinette Turner, who denied the jeep came from their department.

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Speaker 3: Again, this is the same cop.

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Speaker 2: This is, by the way, the same cop that was involved in the dropping off the homeless person story, who somehow failed upward into a leader's position at bart PD.

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Speaker 5: Watch Commander Lieutenant Antoinette Turner, who denied the jeep came from their department.

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Speaker 3: Hey, the CHP says, it's your car. No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: What's going on up there?

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Speaker 2: Again Ryan on the this is if we had, you know, and I say we, as in the broadcast journalism world, had enough resources. There are so many stories that just don't get covered because they take place in these little, tiny cities in these big counties.

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Speaker 1: Well that's why I always say, being mayor of Long Beach or being on the city council in Long Beach or Pasadena. Is the perfect crime because you have a big city with a big budget, and if you want to be corrupt, you can go ahead and be corrupt and no one's paying attention to you.

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Speaker 5: Again, Ryan on the nine to one one.

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Speaker 15: Call lady, Oh, that's not ours, and I was like, yes, it is.

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Speaker 14: Already called the police.

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Speaker 5: Five minutes later, Ryan says Lieutenant Turner.

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Speaker 2: By the way, San Leandro population of ninety one thousand, it's about the size of burbank.

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Speaker 5: Five minutes later, Ryan says, Lieutenant Turner called her back with an offer.

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Speaker 7: Turner calls me boxing that we'll take care of your damage or your car if we cannot make a report.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's shady as hell.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding. So she didn't want this showing up in any insurance paperwork.

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Speaker 2: Hey, we'll pay for your mirror as long as you don't file a report with us, the police department. I'm telling you the reason, that's the same reason that she didn't stop.

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Speaker 1: She was doing something she shouldn't have been doing.

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Speaker 2: And you think it was worse than just holding a cheeseburger with one hand and fries with the other hand and driving with her knees.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you just hit in and out, wouldn't you just stop?

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Speaker 3: Sometimes you gotta go.

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Speaker 7: Turner calls me boxing that we'll take care you're a damage to your car if we cannot make a report.

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Speaker 5: Did it seem odd to you that a police officer is trying to get you not to file a police report?

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Speaker 7: Yes, it was very suspicious, and I even told her, I said, it's very weird that you're trying to get stop me from making a police report about a police officer.

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Speaker 2: Antwinette Turner left the sand that's a whole of the level from Oakland, where hey fill out the forum online. San Leander says, hey, we don't need paperwork involved in this.

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Speaker 1: Do we. Well, I'm sure each city has their own way of handling these things.

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Speaker 5: Antwinette Turner left the San Leandro Police Department this past December. I reached her by phone at bart Police, where she is now deputy chief in charge of the Progressive Policing and Community Engagement Bureau.

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Speaker 3: Who named it that.

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Speaker 1: How is there a political arm of a police department?

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Speaker 5: She would not answer any of the questions I asked. Her involvement is mentioned in this nine page complaint filed by San Leandro pet's internal affairs sergeant Mike Olivera. He cites Turner and Avarett's actions as a troubling pattern of lack of accountability, selective enforcement, and concealment of violations.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's something here.

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Speaker 2: You may not have thought that there was anything untoward about dumping the homeless guy in Oakland, but this story shows you there's something rotten in that police department.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yesterday I thought that was on the up and up, but this one, there's a problem here.

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Speaker 5: Olivera also writes the chief Averett told command staff that nothing happened and described this incident as completely unfounded. I wanted San Leandres.

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Speaker 3: Well, is your mirror all scratched up?

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Speaker 1: Or no? Yeah? What was her explanation when she brought her car in?

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Speaker 5: I wanted San Leandrow Mayor Juan Gonzalez's reaction. He has cooperated with interviews in the past.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, but then Brian Asseavito said way too many things on your interview, and the FBI started looking at him. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I wanted San Leandrow Mayor one Gonzalezs reaction.

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Speaker 3: What was it?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 2: It sure looks like you had some kind of agreement with the dogs to get these shipping containers sold to San Leandro for three hundred thousand dollars a pop. Well, I don't recall ever saying something like that.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I never received a dirty massage from them in Vietnam either.

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Speaker 5: I wanted San Leandrew mayor one gonzalezs reaction. He has cooperated with interviews in the past, but not this time. His spokesperson wrote that the mayor declined because it's a personnel issue. I followed up by going to the city council meeting.

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Speaker 2: Hey Mayoric, by the way, if you're wondering why you only see dan Neus stories every few weeks, it's because this is how much goes into just one seven minute story.

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Speaker 1: Oh, this had to take weeks, if not months.

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Speaker 10: Hey Mayoric, how is the chief involved in a hit and run and an accusation of a cover up? Just a personnel matter? Isn't not a matter for the public interest?

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Speaker 12: And ever more information that you need to get, So okay, we do some more information.

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Speaker 10: If you're from being on the lookout, okay, thank you.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna send you more information. Do you think they send you more information.

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Speaker 5: Nope, that additional information was sparse a written statement. The California Highway Patrol investigated the complaint against the chief. In addition, the city conducted its own independent, third party administrative investigation. Those investigations are Did they look at the mirrors?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't know if this thing requires Mattlock to take a look at it. It seems pretty cut and dry to me.

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Speaker 5: Those investigations are now complete and that's it. No more details on the chief, her jeep, or her accident. The lawyer for the POA is proposing hiring a retired judge, splitting the costs of the city to look at all the information and come to a conclusion about what really happened.

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Speaker 3: I like that the police union hates her guts.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well she's management.

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Speaker 5: I'll be watching if the city responds.

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Speaker 10: Danan Ama, Wow, story incredible.

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Speaker 1: I know you'll get back to.

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Speaker 11: Us and too.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Ny.

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Speaker 3: So there you go.

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Speaker 1: There is the story of the San Leandro police chief that clipped a mirror and tried to cover it up. All right, So during the break, Randy, you were able to locate the video of Dan Nois and Gavin Newsom going at it.

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Speaker 2: This was when Gavin Newsom was mayor of San Francisco and there was a report out about Gavin hitting the sauce and blasting local reporters. That doesn't sound like him.

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Speaker 5: It hasn't been a very easy week for you, and I'm wondering whether you have any comment on the Tier and Roth story about the drinking.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 11: That was a great chief shot. You can't help your soup.

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Speaker 1: You can't helt We love Dan Nois.

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Speaker 3: Dannis is a legend in the Bay area.

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Speaker 1: And right now it's time to open up the California Crime Blodder.

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Speaker 11: It's happened yet again.

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Speaker 1: This Wow, Wow, what's up here?

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Speaker 11: Dun Dundun Dundun Dun reads the Califonia Crime Blodder.

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Speaker 1: With John all Right Randy and in the first edition of the Blodder, Today, a homeless man stabbed a woman in the neck in downtown LA.

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Speaker 2: The only good part about this story is that Ed Lascos is narrating it.

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Speaker 4: They should think again.

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Speaker 3: But here we go once again.

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Speaker 2: A ticking time bomb went off in Los Angeles for mar Here is Fox eleven.

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Speaker 8: We start with a violent attack in downtown LA. A woman hospitalized tonight after being stabbed by a stranger. Happened in your Olympic Boulevard and Hope Street. We go live to Fox eleventh Alasco's in downtown LA with the update.

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Speaker 15: Ed Christina stranger and now LAPD identifying the attacker as a homeless man. The wonder one of the neighbors here saying, when it comes to the homeless in this area, it's like, as she put at, zombie.

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Speaker 1: Land, yep, and downtown LA has been like that since the pandemic.

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Speaker 4: Joe, take us into the story.

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Speaker 15: This area here we're talking about along Hope Street, just a couple of blocks away from Crypto Arena. Brain really picking up here the last twenty minutes or so, but this is a stretcher of a couple of blocks that's still really from this unprovoked surprise attack. Watch Olympic and Hope in the very heart of downtown with its apartments and its condos, and now it's latest.

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Speaker 3: Who the hell would choose to live there?

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Speaker 1: There are people who moved to LA from other big cities, from New York, from Boston, from Philadelphia, whatever, and they come here and they want the good weather, but they want a city type of environment to live in. And they go, well, we'll live in downtown LA. And then it takes some about two months into the lease to realize that was a massive mistake.

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Speaker 15: Olympic and hope in the very heart of downtown with its apartments and its condos, and now it's latest violence. Lapd IDs the attackers as a homeless man.

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Speaker 11: This it is very dangerous.

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Speaker 9: Honestly, it's like zoonevilent a night.

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Speaker 1: It's a poor woman.

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Speaker 9: It is very dangerous. Honestly, it's like zom vilent at night. Sometimes it's evenings by halfords or by rives. Because so many homeless people here.

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Speaker 15: It is really dangerous zombie land at night, she says. And it doesn't seem any safer during the day, especially after what happened here. A woman stabbed in the neck as she's walking down the sidewalk. Security cameras show the woman passing that homeless man, who Lapd says, turns around, pulls out a niphan and stabs the woman from behind.

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Speaker 4: A surprise attack, but not the s who live.

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Speaker 1: Here, totally unprovoked, by the way, just a random act of violence.

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Speaker 9: I seen people, homeless people in holding knives and I was like, oh my god, it's so don you because I moved here on a few months ago and I'm going to move out from here because I don't like it at all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's done.

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Speaker 1: And you want to know why I don't get worked up about police departments dumping homeless people in Oakland.

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Speaker 9: This is why I seen people homeless people in holding knives and I was like, oh my god, it's so do you because I moved here only a few months ago, and I'm going to move out from here because I don't like it at all.

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Speaker 2: Jer I wonder how La lost fifty thousand people in a year.

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Speaker 1: Hmm, hard to tell.

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Speaker 4: This video from the citizens app.

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Speaker 2: You know, when there's one of these stabbings on your street, you pull up Zillo the next day.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would do.

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Speaker 15: This video from the citizens app shortly after the attack.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they got stepped in the neck. That's why they're saying.

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Speaker 15: The woman rushed to the er. A bypasser applies pressure to the wound. That's being credited with keeping the woman alive. That homeless man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this woman is still alive.

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Speaker 2: She's in critical condition, but somebody put a compress on her to make sure that she didn't bleed out.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank god, But just think about that for a second. If you're going to be able to exist in downtown LA, you need to be around someone who has medical warlike medical training.

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Speaker 4: He runs off.

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Speaker 15: He's later arrested for many here though it's just the latest street violence.

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Speaker 11: I had a guy trying to mug me.

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Speaker 13: I was carrying like film equipment on my car really early in the morning one time.

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Speaker 11: You know, got to be aware.

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Speaker 4: Of just keeping your eyes open.

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Speaker 11: Huh yep.

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Speaker 15: Now you're looking lie keeping their eyes open, being very aware that a lot of the folks are telling me, especially when they're walking around here at night. As for the woman, the victim said to be between sixty and seven.

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Speaker 2: There's probably some bar graphs somewhere that shows downtown LA the cost of living as high as it is and the quality of that life as low as it is.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is the problem. If you're a middle class person, you have everything to lose, and these homeless people have nothing to lose. What's going to happen to this guy? Are they going to put him in prison for a long time? No, because he's going to say that he's out of his mind, and he is, and that's going to be.

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Speaker 15: That between sixty and seventy years old. Rush to the er out of emergency surgery now listed as critical. As for the suspect the attack, or the homeless man he wandered off, police find him a few blocks away, now under arrest. Do in court first thing in the morning. A random attack, no motive involved. For now, we're live downtown. Back to the West Side we go.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe how many of these stories we get. But this is what happens when you allow ticking time bombs to wander the streets of Los Angeles. They all have knives, that's what the woman who's going to move away said. And you don't just have a knive because you're not going to use it.

00:26:00
Speaker 1: They need to be institutionalized. And the state of California fights us every step of the way when we try to do that. All right, Randy, it's time to reopen the blotters.

00:26:12
Speaker 3: To Cashi's dummy.

00:26:15
Speaker 11: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.

00:26:18
Speaker 3: I said, hell no, ready, boy, let me get up one out of here.

00:26:23
Speaker 11: It's the California Crime Bloater.

00:26:26
Speaker 2: And this one involves the fruit coming out of the loom Balboa Park has been hitting the news all the time lately in San Diego because of the parking fees. Well, apparently it's gotten so expensive to park there that somebody went without pants. Oh, it has nothing to do with the parking Okay, here is CBS eight in San Diego. Tonight, women are sounding an alarm over disturbing incidents at Balboa Park.

00:26:54
Speaker 16: There have been multiple reports of men exposing themselves on the trails, and tonight one woman is sharing her story with news aid Steffi Roche. Hailey Beeman says she was alone walking the Cabrio Trail when she came across the two men who were exposing themselves.

00:27:10
Speaker 1: What is wrong with people? How much do you want to bet their crackhead? Homeless people too.

00:27:16
Speaker 3: They could just be perverts.

00:27:19
Speaker 2: This is not just something that's exclusive to the homeless.

00:27:23
Speaker 12: I really haven't seen a lot of people here in the past, maybe some families walking through the trail.

00:27:28
Speaker 16: That's Hailey Beaman, who was walking alone in the Cabrio Trail on March twenty second, in the early afternoon. She says she wasn't too far from the Marston House when she says she first came across one man who was exposing and touching himself.

00:27:42
Speaker 1: Oh no, that is not what you want to see when you're getting some exercise. Nope, doing the most with these ends.

00:27:50
Speaker 12: I had my finger on my pepper spray and I just continued to walk past him quickly.

00:27:55
Speaker 1: I would have fired, you would have just gone for it, huh. And I wouldn't have sprayed his face. Let's just say that, wouldn't that sting?

00:28:05
Speaker 12: After I turned the corner, there was a second man who was also exposing himself, she says.

00:28:11
Speaker 3: On the same trip she gets flashed at twice.

00:28:14
Speaker 1: What are the odds?

00:28:16
Speaker 16: She says.

00:28:17
Speaker 2: He was also and you have to pay ten dollars to park here? What the hell?

00:28:23
Speaker 1: And we wonder why people are moving out of state.

00:28:26
Speaker 16: She says, he was also aggressively touching himself while exposed.

00:28:31
Speaker 12: There was no really option to turn around, and by the time I was in between the two of them, I just had to keep walking. And so I just had to walk.

00:28:37
Speaker 3: She's got a bob and weaver way out of there, sounds like it.

00:28:42
Speaker 12: And so I just had to walk past them. And you know, it was really scary because I didn't know if they were going to like lunch out and grab.

00:28:49
Speaker 11: Me shake in.

00:28:51
Speaker 16: She tells me she did call nine one one when she was in a safe space.

00:28:55
Speaker 12: So something very scary happened to me today and I will no longer be walking alone.

00:28:59
Speaker 1: Inton, Well, she wasn't technically alone this time. She was there with the ghost of Paul Rubins.

00:29:07
Speaker 16: She made this video about the experience on social media and says women have reached out sharing similar stories of harassment while walking in the park. San Diego Police confirmed calls for indecent exposure in the area on March fourteenth and this incident on the twenty second. Police say both callers decline to make formal reports or statements.

00:29:28
Speaker 11: No, no, no, no, no.

00:29:29
Speaker 1: You have to make a police report, because what the politicians then do is they say the park is safe, look at the statistics. Crime is down.

00:29:39
Speaker 16: Police say both callers decline to make formal reports or statements, and that in order for an investigation to take place, the person or victim calling to report the incident must be willing to give a statement. For Haley, her message is for women and anyone out walking to stay alert.

00:29:57
Speaker 12: Never wear two AirPods you know, and never wear noise canceling headphones. Always be aware of your surroundings and just be ready for anything.

00:30:05
Speaker 2: Really, just have your finger on the pepper spray the whole time, because you never know when you need to use it.

00:30:11
Speaker 1: I think the moral of this story is just use the treadmill in your house.

00:30:15
Speaker 16: I told Beeman what SDPD shared with me, and she says she plans to follow up and reach back out and file a official report with them. Meanwhile, police confirmed no arrests have been made for now. Reporting from Bilboa Park. I'm Stephanie Roche News eight.

00:30:31
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's a pain in the ass and a hassle, but the one thing everyone has to do. If you are a victim of a crime, it doesn't matter how small or how insignificant, or you don't think anything's going to happen, you have to report it. Or the politicians get to say crime is down.

00:30:49
Speaker 1: That's right. And we know because of the insurance crisis in the state, people aren't even reporting property crimes to their insurance companies because they don't want to get dropped. Has to be some memorialization of what happened somewhere, otherwise we're going to be told that we're safer in California today than we were in the fifties. Eight hundred two two two five two two two East Telephone number one, eight hundred two to two five two to two two. And right now it's time to reopen the California Crime Blodder.

00:31:21
Speaker 3: Is to catch shit.

00:31:22
Speaker 1: He's dummy.

00:31:24
Speaker 11: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.

00:31:27
Speaker 1: I said, hell, no, very boy, let me get up one out of here.

00:31:32
Speaker 11: It's the California Crime Blowder.

00:31:36
Speaker 1: And Randy. This one is a case of mistaken identity.

00:31:40
Speaker 3: We've all seen it.

00:31:42
Speaker 2: Somebody outside of a bar or a club is a little too hammered and they get in the wrong uber and then a fighting starts.

00:31:52
Speaker 1: I've done that a couple of times. No fighting, but I have an uber that's supposed to come pick me up. I don't pay too close of attention as to what kind of car it is. One pulls up right in front of me and I try to get in for more. Here is CBS forty seven in the Central Valley, which.

00:32:13
Speaker 3: Starting off strong.

00:32:15
Speaker 1: Oh my, we.

00:32:19
Speaker 17: A fight over an uber that one passenger wasn't even supposed to be in.

00:32:27
Speaker 1: WHOA, well, he's not getting five stars.

00:32:30
Speaker 14: This guy just decided to come in my car and sit in my car and start demanding me to drive them. And I was like, hey, bro, you gotta get out of my car.

00:32:41
Speaker 17: But the unwelcome passenger did not exit. Thomas Rodriguez is Uber, the part time driver, says the situation escalated when one of the dancers at Splash Nightclub, who was.

00:32:51
Speaker 1: Of course, they're at a strip club.

00:32:53
Speaker 3: When one of the do you think that's a strip club?

00:32:57
Speaker 1: Splash Splash nightclub in Uh?

00:33:04
Speaker 3: What this is in Fresno? Okay, it probably is.

00:33:11
Speaker 1: I can't imagine it being anything other than that.

00:33:14
Speaker 3: Oh it's a gay bar. Oh okay, Splash Fresno.

00:33:22
Speaker 17: The part time driver says. The situation escalated when one of the dancers at Splash Nightclub, who was supposed to be in the car, stepped inside.

00:33:30
Speaker 3: So we're talking go go dancers.

00:33:32
Speaker 17: Oh yeah, that's when the unwelcome passenger started burating the dancer and the driver.

00:33:38
Speaker 14: I'm picking up the dancers, day, we'll shut up.

00:33:41
Speaker 12: Shut up.

00:33:45
Speaker 1: Well, he's not using the Queen's English.

00:33:49
Speaker 14: I'm picking up the dancers.

00:33:51
Speaker 2: So you have a guy who's completely hammered sitting in an uber that's not his the driver's like, no, I'm supposed to be picking up a dancer, and then somebody comes in a mesh top and a g string and he gets all crazy.

00:34:03
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, just imagine being in Fabio's position. You're showing up to your uber and some drunk is in there barking orders at your driver.

00:34:13
Speaker 14: I'm picking up the duncers.

00:34:14
Speaker 1: Damn well, shut up, shut up, tig.

00:34:22
Speaker 14: When you did that, I had the first.

00:34:25
Speaker 2: By the way, I know there's always people in Hollywood looking for new ideas. I want a reality show at the gay bar in Fresno.

00:34:36
Speaker 1: Well, if you're the drunk, I don't know if you want to take the scripper on because usually they're in pretty good shape.

00:34:42
Speaker 2: Big.

00:34:42
Speaker 14: When you did that, I had the first. I was like, Wow, this is actually happening. But you know, I had to defend myself too, because it was not just my passengers, it was you know, me there as well.

00:34:55
Speaker 17: Rodriguez says, in the thousands of rides he's driven, he's never had an encounter like this.

00:35:00
Speaker 14: That's just one out of more than eleven thousand people that I've driven.

00:35:05
Speaker 17: You know, Rodriguez says, he and other drivers are always aware of the threats that come with their job. On Thanksgiving of last year, an uber driver was shot in the back of the head by their passenger.

00:35:15
Speaker 1: WHOA, that's aggressive.

00:35:18
Speaker 14: That's actually the second time I've known about this. It happened a couple of years ago, more like about five or six years ago. It did happen. So, I mean, there is that danger, but I mean we all have to find a way around it.

00:35:34
Speaker 17: Still, he won't be discouraged by one bad interaction. Armed with dash cams.

00:35:38
Speaker 14: This one's a back.

00:35:40
Speaker 11: There we are at.

00:35:41
Speaker 3: It's the beauty of the dash cam.

00:35:43
Speaker 2: All of these incidents, all these taxicab confessions they go online.

00:35:47
Speaker 1: How long was that show on the air for? And why did they ever take it off?

00:35:52
Speaker 14: There we are at the front. And then this is us here in the cabinet as you see and as you saw the video that we posted.

00:36:00
Speaker 17: And a mandatory pin for passengers. Rodriguez says he'll keep on driving, putting his best foot forward on the gas pedal. As for the unwonted passenger event, promoter Ray Kenga, who uploaded the viral video, have this to say.

00:36:13
Speaker 1: Control you drinking. Yeah, that's not going to happen.

00:36:18
Speaker 2: Well, this is the issue. There are many people that are very responsible and they know that if they're going to enjoy themselves that they're going to have ride share or they're going to call a waimou what have you. There are some people that, because of the advent of ride share, used as an excuse to get completely blitzed.

00:36:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, the bingch drinking. I've seen a whole lot more of that since the uber became a thing.

00:36:47
Speaker 2: When La Metro extended their hours to two am. This is back when the Metro was safe in like twenty twelve and people can start taking public transit in and out of Hollywood. People were so hammered on those trips, especially if you were in that train after midnight. It felt real dangerous. And I have a vivid picture of my mind of two drunk guys beating the crap out of each other on the platform at Universal City.

00:37:15
Speaker 1: Are you sure that wasn't Dodger Stadium control.

00:37:18
Speaker 10: You're drinking, and if you're not someone that ends up good when you drink, you probably shouldn't be out.

00:37:27
Speaker 17: In Fresno for your CenTra Valley dot Com.

00:37:29
Speaker 2: I'm marcros There's the story of the mistaken Uber identity in front of Fresno's gay bar,