From Road Rage to Racism: Unpacking America’s Deep Divides

You know what? No talking from you. Before we start the show, you don't talk until I point to you. Because you mess me up every time it's about to, it's time to start the show. You act like you got good sense right up until 6.59. Do not lose it. I'm just, I'm just, I'm sick of you, Jermaine.

It'll make no sense, man. It just makes no sense. Oh, it is the chair. It is the chair. We got a hiring pattern around here. Good morning. Good morning. What's happening? Family, welcome to whatever this is this morning. This is Michelle Brown here at WNOV 860 AM 106.5 FM. You are listening to say something real.

You make me feel like I need a whole another weekend just five minutes in the studio with you and I need Thursday to be right now It's too much. It's too much. Let me say good morning to the gentleman in the studio. What's going on Clark Kent? Man, I don't know today. I don't know today. I would have to rethink my life up here How was your weekend bruh?

Yes, it was. Did we do anything fabulous? Did we DJ? Did we kick it? No, you know, I did that with my friend birthday with Deebo down in the chairs. Oh, didn't I end up going to a dance one of them?

Biker dance. Did you dance at the dance?

That was here, but well, I know we got like the stepping community, the brother steel dance, but, and I was actually, I had like a moment this weekend where.

I wanted to show somebody this lady out of Chicago that I like. That's a stepper. And so I went and found this video, this competition she was in. Man, I must have watched 1700 stepper videos after I did that. Because it's such a beautiful art. Oh my God, the little twirling and spinning it with the sisters being jazzy. Because you know, everything I had learned was like, you know, sisters is really keeping time for the brothers. And the brothers is the ones that get to show out.

world and step away, walk back, spit into women at the same time. And I'm like, you know what? Oh, no, no player. If you think I'm not about to shine, you must be crazy. Oh, so I was watching that.

And I'ma tell you, but I also think that to some level stepping ruined it for everybody else that go to the club. Because in Milwaukee, if you're not stepping when you go out, there is no regular dancing unless you go to like real young, you know, young, young spots.

There is no dancing. I remember like, you know, you could go to Sibonese and just get it in. Right. Mr. J's get it in. But you know, the everything changed and if you could step and I can't step, you know, I could do a little two step. But after the two step, I'm done. That's what we was talking about because we like, we go like, I go to St. Louis and like Detroit, they dance. Yeah, still dance. They don't dance here. If you can't step, you are not on the floor. You in the way.

And the only time you get to hop up is when they do a live dance. Yeah, we would be so happy. Everybody be so happy. You can jump up, do a little live dance, throw in your own little improvisations on some of the steps. But just in terms of going to a party and just dancing, nah man. Like Jay, at your party people was able to just dance.

But it is one of those things that I'm like, yeah, y'all gotta mess up the game for everybody else. And Milwaukee always takes stuff too far. It's like, y'all, it's a balance. It's a balance. Let the regular people dance. You got some people creep walking. What are we doing, man?

Like, man, what are we doing, man? I mean, even when we was coming up as teenagers, we was out there dancing, you know what I'm saying? Man, I'm talking about, you already knew, you was going to switch your hair out. No, this is how crazy dancing was. This is an honest to God truth. Now, you know, like in the movies, that when they used to fight each other, they used to fight each other. Yeah, pop lock and stuff. So they're looking at each other.

Right here in the god in school. Yeah, that's how we settle be

Oh, it's so bad to do it. Rockin' the God. Rockin' the God. And how you do the eye part again. That's the news all the time. But how you knew that you won was when the crowd be like, oh, shit. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The crowd. You live to dance another day.

I appreciate it more than what we got now in terms of drama. How was your weekend, Jay? How was it?

You know, I made a lot of money this weekend. Hey! What we doing? So this week should be good. Hey! What you saying? Can I get something? Can I hold it with something playing? It was a great weekend.

You need to share. Hey, I mean, being out at the zoo for the alley cart zoo thing. It was nice. They had several. That was out there. Take it. What was you there? Well, I was on the Flamingo stage on Saturday. Oh, OK. Kishi was out there Sunday. Yeah, Allison. Yeah, Kishi said it was back yesterday. Yeah, so you were out there playing. I made a couple bucks, a whole bunch of bucks.

And you were on the Flamingo stage? Flamingo stage. Oh, OK. So we hit at, what was it like, four something, five something? Oh, man, that was so new. Down there, it was super nice. It was people everywhere. Yeah, I heard it was a great crowd. It was crazy. It was diverse. Yeah, and they was just, they was into it. I mean, now, some of the moves I was sending out there as I was playing.

I swear it looked like I was watching Charlie Brown over here. Some of these dance moves on the where they came from. Hey, as long as people was moving, though. Oh, yeah, that was moving and grooving. Yeah. And there was a lot of fun. You can get these stiff audiences. They act like, I'm like, why you come out for them? You didn't come to collab. You didn't come to, like, you know,

Show any love to the artist. Why are you here? Right? I can't say people that go to show. I say this all the time now. Anybody that listen on a regular basis, they know that's my pet peeve. Don't come to a show and then sit up like you two damn good to clap. Like all of that irks my soul. Why you bring your butt out here? No, no, I do have to say our colleague.

When he first came to my very first show, I didn't know how to read it. Keith this cat was sitting there like cuz he ridiculous Because he's always been trying to look like he just so serious Into it. He's just a square

But at the end, I do have to say, he was like, man, great job. Yeah. But I didn't know that George just can't. Yeah, you cannot. You cannot. Because you could be somewhere where Keith and then you come. Like, I think that was at that one dinner.

Was there at the whole thing talked to him sat next to him, you know and all his foolishness and then when he get back to station Oh, Michelle had on a free outfit. Oh, right. Well, you ain't saying that about my outfit when you saw me You know, you'll be looking like a rag doll. So yeah, Keith ain't no good judge I mean, no no good barometer. You can't read his face Yeah, he'll leave you hanging

Well, look, let me say good morning to everybody that is online this morning. I see folks checking in Yeah, my girl eval can you like I still hold my spot every day Hey, Dorothy Jean can't say your name and I think about key. Hey, Irvana. What's going on a walters? We got zebra. I need to find out who is zebra S3 and and I saw somebody said they were a dialysis this morning. Hey keep on doing that

Keep on doing that. Stay up, stay healthy, doing what you're supposed to. Somebody said shout out to the Mexican Fiesta. We had an awesome... Hey, you need to stop that. I heard you on Friday. That racist nonsense. That is racist as hell. You need to stop that.

I was so mad when you was talking to Keith and DJ and I was trying to call in but I was about to wreck the car trying to text and drive. So I said let me put this phone down. But dude you're so racist and ignorant. I said I'll say Carmen McGee will come in and bust him in his head because he all making that ridiculous sound and then all your little comments. I was like oh yeah I'm glad you did that because I want to check you.

You racist me. You need to stop. You need to stop. I don't know. You need to stop. Okay. Because you know, and how do you say? How do you say? Sorry? How do you say? I'm done with you. I'm done with you. But I'm glad you did do that, though, because I was like, racist. Can't make it that stupid. I was like, I can't wait to see you.

Somebody said I'm sick of live every single song Oh, but I was watching I've been watching a lot of Asian movies lately and They had a fight with fans Back in it, you know back in the day and I was like, oh they used to fight with it. It was like more

You know, artistic kind of thing, but they had the fans and they like, you know, like slicing folks with the fans. It was incredible. So was you watching the one that the audio, it was ahead of their lips. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

English, they had English voice overlays or whatever the correct term is. And so I'm sick of you. All right. So yeah, somebody wanted to know what kind of hat am I wearing? This hat is actually a hat that I picked up at the Fresh Coast Jazz Festival. I ended up going on Friday night.

Miss the first man. I think they were like hometown all stars or something miss them But I got to see I think the sister's name was Candice and I have seen Candice before but I Never like committed her name to like memory But she is phenomenal and she had a sister who was

uh playing I think the cello and she her last name was Brian actually Julia our train she was amazing and then they had a drummer from New York a female drummer from New York a beast and she knew she was a beast like plays with everybody the biggest names all over the world but when I tell you this woman had the

the confidence and the the skills to rival anybody in the in the game. This woman was incredible. So, then Spiral Gyro came on and I had a moment with them because they played this song that one of the brothers who's a guitarist in Spiral Gyro, he played, he had written and

produced this song called Dancing on Table Mountain. And when I went to South Africa in Cape Town, that's where Table Mountain is. And so my friend Vivica insisted we got to go see Table Mountain. And I'm like, it's a mountain dude. I really have to go. It seems like we're going up in this cable car and we're going to view Table Mountain. It was incredible. The view was beautiful. Glad I did it. And so then to hear this song about Table Mountain, it was crazy.

Um, and then this one bag that I was carrying, I had actually gotten from my friend, uh, who lives in LA or lives in, um, in, uh, Cali. So it just was a cool, it was a cool full circle moment, uh, at the show. So the show was amazing. Uh, what's the best name? Is it Randy, um, Crawford? What's the guy's name? Who does fresh ghost? I always forget his own name. Um, let me see if I can remember his name. I know Keith would know. He'd like see that's why.

I know what I've been talking about. But anyway, I'll find it. So I had an amazing time.

I saw a ton of people I knew, sitting right next to my Sarah and her husband, didn't even look over because I was too busy enjoying myself. When the lights came up, they was like, Michelle, my bad. So it was really cool. So that was the only fun thing I got to do this weekend. Everything else was work. And I just told Jermaine, literally I walked in the door and was like, yeah, I need the weekend to come up. Even though next weekend is going to be just as crazy as this weekend was.

All of that was cool. It was it was good though to hang out and just take some downtime because I was trying to make my mind if I was gonna go and I was like hey Go enjoy yourself. Just go go enjoy yourself and I did I had a great time. I had an absolute great time. So this hat actually came from Carl Brown. Thank you. Thank you. I knew I knew thank you, Keith

So this hat actually came from fresh coast jazz festival and they had like a lot of them that was really fly but I don't really do this look because it's a trucker look to me and I'm not I'm not real fine of the trucker look Yeah, but I like the I like the hat though and when that's wait on it. No, you know, I know this baby sweet and so

when I had picked up another one and then I put that one back and the lady was like, let me show you this one. And when she showed me this one, I was like, oh yeah, this, yeah, this is the money right here. So yep, it came from there and this is my second day wearing it. Somebody just said I got to see Chris Brown in usher in Chicago. My sister was over there. She went to go see him as well. How much did tickets you say $12,000?

Well, I don't know what I don't know what all the feedback is I know my sorrow said that Usher look like an old man compared to Chris Brown Yeah, cuz you know Chris Brown number one boy state state Cut up fit. Yeah, you know dancing is clearly his passion. So he makes sure he able to do all of that And us sure is getting seasoned I think he just get ready get his son ready go to college

Yeah, I think Usher Sun started Howard this semester. Really? Yeah, I think so. If I'm not mistaken, I thought I saw an article, let me look real quick, that Usher Sun was going to college. And I was like, dang, this dude got his oldest son, Senko, is attending Howard University. As a member, yep, he just went in.

Yep, I just saw that. I knew I saw that. He was there on the freshman pen and ceremony and I was like, dang, you got a child in college. So anyway, so yeah, I'm glad to hear people got out, enjoyed themselves. She said usher look good. Well, he always look good. And I'm gonna tell you, they got this thing. It's a short and they go into stars homes and they went into usher's house. That boy house is crazy.

man with some change will do for you. When I say, you think you had nice stuff, right? Like, oh, this is nice. Man, you go to some people's house and the foyer look better than your whole house. It's madness. We was working with us earlier back in the day. He had baby face old house. So he had his crib. Okay.

when I tell you the crib was amazing. Like he took us through it. And then he took us to the back house to the studio. Okay. Like it like this land and just I was like, man, let's hear money having that kind of money. Yeah, I mean, you know, and you don't always like, you know, you don't always appreciate like what is out there. You know, the places that like you never will shop.

Because your money just won't put you in them places or the things that you don't even know exists You know cuz I remember like the first time I was in Lenox mall and you know You could walk around in Lenox mall and pick up purses that cost $25,000 and they weren't locked up. They went locked up $12,000 purses, you know, I'm in this store in Lenox and I'm like this is beautiful and because it's Atlanta and They don't know who got money

everybody got treated with respect. Yeah. Because, you know, rappers coming through spending, you know, ignorant money, you didn't know who had money. And so they treated every customer like, yeah, you may be getting red drop this brandy here. Um, but I was looking at stuff. I was like, so I just want to be clear. This purse costs 20. No, I picked up a belt that was $12,000. The belt. And I was like, this is madness. And I just saw another NFL player got robbed.

Yeah, they said they took $300,000 worth of stuff from them. And then they said they were bags. So I don't know if it was like, you know, luggage or what kind of bags it was. But yeah, another and it's that's like the third one. They robbed this house while he was at he was out and again. It seemed like it's a corporate crime.

You know, that's going on. It's connected. It's inside thing, but you just got it. They know when they leave and they know who not there. Well, yeah, that's because they're doing homework. Right. Because this guy, what's his name? C.D. Lamb? Yeah, C.D. Lamb from Dallas. Yeah. So he was robbed and they said $300,000 worth of stuff stolen from his house. And look, you're only 27 years old, $300,000 worth of stuff. But I don't understand.

And they were bad. She said four luxury bags were stolen. So when you're in that position, how do you not have security? Because number one, you think about where some of these people live. So you're not even thinking that everybody going to have access to your community because a lot of these are gated communities or, you know, like.

You got to know somebody to know somebody to be up in the neighborhoods where some of these houses are located. So I think you get a false sense of security. It's just like I was messing with some of my friends who have moved to the suburbs and they doors be left unlocked. Car doors don't be locked, keys be in the car. And they're like, don't happen out here. So you get logged into a false sense of security because of where you live. You know, like, ain't nobody around here still in there. Everybody around here got stuff.

And I'm not thinking about, though, who has been given access and introduced and brought into the community, and they end up wiping you out. But yeah, just in his case, it was four luxury bags. So all right, y'all, I'll take my first break of the morning. A number of things I want to get to this morning. So you were listening to WNLV.

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All right, family, welcome back to the show. So let me just take a moment before I start getting into some of the top line issues of the day, just to say first of all, and thank Jermaine for flagging and forming. So remember, we talked extensively about the sister Sonia Massey, who had called for help to her home in Illinois, a suspected either prowler or

that somebody was, you know, by her house and it might have been an issue. And the officers responded and she was actually boiling water. I think for a cup of tea or something, when officers got to the house, officers told her, turn off the pot with the water in it. And he said, you know, we don't want to cause a situation or something like that. And she said, oh, I rebuked that in the name of Jesus and the officer.

who evidently, you know, not necessarily familiar with black, you know, vernacular diversity, whatever. He took that to mean that she was threatening him or planning to douse him with the hot water. And he shot and killed this woman in her home after she had called for help. This was back in 2024. So,

He ultimately was put on trial for her death. And the trial happened last year, 2025. And he was given a 20-year sentence, second-degree murder. The jury had an option. They could go with first-degree or second. They went with second-degree murder. He was given 20 years in prison for killing this woman. And there was a lot of public protests. People were upset.

because there have been protests all along, you know, from when he first shot the woman right up until even the sentencing, which people are just like, so her life was worth 20 years. But interestingly enough, before he ever encountered Sonia Massey in 2023, he had been diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. So he was fighting colon cancer when he was on the job.

And he gets convicted, stands trial in 2024, is convicted, 2025, he's in prison, I'm sorry, 2025, he's in prison. And he didn't reach a stage four, colon cancer. And so they said by that time, the cancer has spread to his liver, lungs, rectum. And he...

to get basically a compassionate release, a medical release. Because at this point, he's now terminal. And the Illinois Prison Review Board had denied the application. He passed away. Passed away in prison. They just announced it.

And it's just kind of interesting and crazy all at the same time to understand how this whole thing has ended up in playing out. But yeah, he passed away. One of the things that people had talked about during the time that Sonia Massey was killed was that she had been suffering mental health challenges, had admitted herself into a 38 inpatient program the week before her death.

and then ended up going home. But even though they tried to make that central to what was going on with him and the way he responded and shooting her, he had already told her, I will shoot you in your head. He told her that. And so you can't go, oh, he was fearful for his life for a pot of water and blah, blah, blah. She made no gesture to burn him, to pick up the pot and throw it towards him.

But that mental health piece, because in Sandra Bland's case, when she was found hung in a jail cell, and a lot of the hangings that we have been watching that have been reported around the country, primarily in the South, everybody wants to say that all these black people had mental health issues.

At first glance, we certainly push back on some of these narratives because since when did we just start hanging ourselves? You just it takes a lot of work to do that and thought and You know having what you need to be able to put yourself in position. It's just a crazy way by which to To deal with your your suffering but Along that same vein There is a video out of Detroit

Michigan that over the last couple of days Two women went into a liquor store to pick up some stuff and They passed a young brother Hang on just pulling up the story they passed a young brother

while they were going into the liquor store and He Like open the door they was gonna come through and he just pulled out a gun and shot and killed one woman and He wounded the other woman, but she survived For no reason the video

Jermaine shared the video with me this morning, but the video is madness But he just a young brother walking, you know, he don't have his gasoline short song no shirt on and He literally just walks by these women and you can see it's clear as day like there's no interaction with these women and He just pulls out a gun

And shoots the one lady and kills her and shoots at the other lady. They now have this young person in custody. He's 15 years old. He is 15 years old. He is 15. He is 15 years old. And so there was reports that he

Had suffered from mental health issues, but 15 years old He was arrested Again randomly shooting two women the team was apparently carrying his mom's obituary because if you look at the photo he has a Kind of book thing booklet in his hand

Go back and look at the video. He got it in his hand. The team was apparently carrying his mom's obituary when he opened fire on these two women walking into the, when he was walking into the liquor store. Reports said he had never spoken to the women before shooting. Police are going back to look at the security camera, but some of that security video has already been released. If you are somebody that is familiar with the Detroit area, they said this was near Warren and Chalmers on the east side of Detroit.

uh a 57 year old woman is a person who died and she was with her niece um and so the Detroit police have put his picture out uh you know so that folks can help identify him and tell people obviously you need to be on guard this young man is dangerous but people you know quickly figure out who it was the police were able to get him and get him in custody

So are you, you know, so now more investigation will happen. How long ago did his mother pass? You know, what were you going through as a result of that? And literally how you are walking around with your mother's obituary in your hand and turn around and potentially kill somebody else's mother? Because I don't know if the 57 year old had children, but so.

on some of this stuff, when we talk about mental health, we've got to be willing to concede that there are some things that are going on with people. There are some things that are going on with people. So we will wait to kind of hear the rest of the backstory on that, but when I say that was crazy, that, and you can tell these young, you know, but I gave them like 18 to 20, somewhere near, but 15,

15 And you know Jermaine talked about the eeriness of it this morning when we were talking about it before the show started that You you never know you just minding your own business you walking into a walking out of a store and Just like that your life is over or you've been put in the way in harm's way So did you want to say something Jack? I was just saying man. I think about

You know when you walk past these people at these gas stations and they ask for change and You know Some of these guys if you you know say no, you know, they get real real aggressive with you like ah or if you or if you give them You know change and they see like the dollar what can I have a dollar? Whatever case is and your response

can really dictate their actions. So you can say something like, no, I ain't got nothing. Move around. And then it'll trigger something in them that they're in the stabbing, shooting you or whatever. Like, you don't know. And I mean, I think about just, you know, my kids moving freely, you know, going into the stores and in and out of family members or even friends that you just never know that what a person is thinking when you walk past them.

And so, for me, I just try to be kind to everybody. I'm not saying that these young ladies was doing anything inappropriate because from the video, it don't look like they said anything. They just walked by. But for me, I just try to be nice to everybody because you never know what a person is thinking. So you just try to offset, you know, if they having a bad day, they outside and they got all type of thoughts with it.

you come through with shows of love, it might offset that thought of them doing something to you. And excuse me, one of the things that I frequently have said when people, you know, some of, you know, stop giving these people money because when you give them money, you know, they continue to do what it just makes it worse. And I just always have come from it, from a different lens, which is if I'm, if I hand you money, then potentially you don't have to steal money and you don't have to harm somebody to get some money.

And so this isn't always just for that individual. It's also sometimes just helping to keep the community safe and keeping and keeping peace, you know And I appreciate the fact that you out here willing to at least ask and not somewhere trying to rob somebody and steal you know and harm somebody I mean like literally I had my window on my car broken out and

the only thing that the person took was some change. I had my son's Christmas toys littered the whole back of my hatchback because I had a sports car and all kinds of stuff was in that car because I only had came home. I was stopping to run in and do something and then got on the phone, started messing around.

And then I was going to go back out because I was going someplace else. But in that window, and it was late. It was like about 11 o'clock at night. In that window, somebody came through. I had my bag on the back seat, my computer was in the car. They didn't take none of that stuff. They took the change out of my center console. And so, you know, my window.

versus having somebody a couple of dollars. So that has kind of been the thinking. But when I just say that, you know, and we think about, oh, the homeless person asking for change, but this could be anybody that is capable of this madness. Another story that kind of stood out. And again, not here in town, but a young sister, they just had her funeral service on Saturday.

down in north Memphis. Okay. Um, this sister had just graduated, uh, and completed her PhD. So she had become Dr. Chandrika Haslett. Uh, and they were having a graduation party and she was, you know, there at this house at the party and some young cats came through, shot up the house. They shot five people for survive.

this young sister who had just completed her, her PhD, um, her doctor, she just got it. Um, she ends up being killed. One of the young people that they arrested for, cause they got three people in custody now is 16 years old. So at 16 and the other two, uh, suspects 25 years old, they both for 25. So.

That's the thing that's so crazy that you will come into a house full of people. Folks are here kicking and having a good time, whatever they doing, and you are open fire with no regard for who these bullets may hit and take out. So it was considered a mass shooting down in Memphis, but no regard. But that one of these suspects, one of the people involved was only 16 years old.

There are definitely things that are going on in our community that we've got people in to talk about That is why the days that I will hear quake cool them talking about trauma Or different groups, you know, even like when Keon was here he would bring through all these different Mental health experts and panelists and have these and sometimes just the street committee Just the street committee because they'll always require a degree and a PhD

the street committee could come through and talk about, you know, what was going on and how people got to a certain place and, you know, what we need to do in terms of helping people and looking for signs is some young people dealing with crazy stuff. And they it shows up badly in our community. But usually if I sit that 16 year old down in Memphis, if I

sit this 15 year old down in Detroit and say, so walk me through what's going on. How we get here. Usually those stories are going to be crazy. They usually not always, but usually the stories are going to be crazy. So I just wanted to flag that if you see someone that is in mental health crisis,

They need some resources, additional help. Please do not hesitate to reach out. There is a national hotline that you can call, but you can simply dial 988 or 2-1-1. 988 is suicide and crisis hotline. 2-1-1 is general. 9-1-1, if it's an immediate emergency. And in Milwaukee, our mobile 24 hour crisis line, 414.

257-7222 or simply text to 988. But we have got to be able to help people. And when we see something, say something. Because somebody knew that that 15-year-old in Detroit, that something was wrong with that boy, that he was going through something. If somebody has said something, potentially that sister is alive right now.

Let me take a break. I'll be right back. We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow.

I definitely don't think we would be here without Veolia and MMSD. Clean water is essential. When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia. The result, the new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks,

Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values. I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.

It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.

All right, family. So before I transition away from the whole mental health conversation, I talked about other cities. Let me include my walking. Let me bring in the meal. So there was conversation. Some folks, in fact, Jermaine,

mentioning that he actually had driven through the scene after it happened. But many of you may have heard about that there was a road rage incident that happened either Friday, Saturday, Saturday morning here in Milwaukee. A one year old child ended up being shot as a result of two adults near Sherman and Capital who get into it in terms of

you know, some type of road rage situation, they exchange gunfire, okay? And the one year old child ends up getting shot while these two grown people who can't figure out how to share the road, be respectful courteous drivers, whatever the situation is, talking ignorant to one another. Who gets out shooting?

When a child I'm not shooting anyway because of row rage, but then it's a child in the car and so the The condition of the little baby was not immediately known But you know they did did not die obviously But it's just it's just madness both drivers are now in custody

pending a review by the DA about which charges that they're going to face. And this comes on the heels of last week, an 18-year-old fairly shot, a 44-year-old woman during a road rage dispute near, that's on the south side, South 10th Street in Lapa. A month earlier, 48-year-old man was shot and killed. This was also connected to a road rage incident. So when we think about

and we talk about the people wandering the streets and begging for change. And the lady we had dealing with across the street the other week or so ago, where she's passed out in front of the gas station door. That's what immediately comes to people mind. You don't think about the car sitting next to you. And who's driving that car? And what could go on when you throw up the bird or you don't let somebody pass? And I'm gonna tell you.

like when people run red lights it irks my soul. I lay on my horn like a crazy person when people run red lights because I want you to at least know somebody see you and it's out of order but it's never lost on me that somebody could turn around and fire in my direction. You know Shale I have to admit and again I thank God for growth because for me what used to really grind my

gears is when I'm gonna say it it's when you're driving and a white person used to flip you off oh yeah speed off right that used to light something in me that I would chase them and I found myself saying to myself oh so you're gonna be tough and flip me off but then now that I'm at you

you running and swerving and trying to get away. Oh, yeah. Trying to catch it but they're not thought about it. What's you gonna do when you catch him? Well, if you, if you my nephew, you, you gonna shoot him. Well, my nephew did it right here. Oh, I don't know. He was on their freeway and him and his white dude got into a road race situation and

White dude was like pull over my nephew was like I pull over and if you pulled over and My nephew had a hoodie on and the white dude got out the car He was talking real strong and wrong and he was like I shoot the blood way way out of you and he I guess he had his firearm and my nephew shot him through his hoodie And he shot him in the leg when he shot through his hoodie and the guy called 911 and

He tells him, you know, I've been shot and my nephew drove off. And so he called 911 and 911 says, you know, what happened? And the guy, you hear the guy say, well, I did threaten to shoot him first. And so, but the thing that was crazy. So the district attorney charged my nephew.

No, they charge him with like attempted murder or something as they charge him for real for real. They charged him and a jury acquitted him. Because the jury was like, dude told him he was gonna shoot him. So he shot him first. So no, that was self-defense. So he got off. We weren't expecting him to get off. But he got off. But I'm just telling you, that ain't how I go. That's not how it typically goes. I had to really catch myself because

Again, I'm patting myself on the back because of growth that I see in myself because just here recently, you know, I was out working, you know, doing what I do on site. And again, one of those white people, as I was getting ready to pick up somebody threw me a burn. F you and drove off. Now, this is why my app is so crazy. This is why my app is on and somebody's getting ready to get in the car. OK.

So for about a good 20 seconds, I forgot that I was picking somebody up. And as they drove past me, the person was walking out to the car. I hit the gas. Get ready to go chase. To chase the dude. But then I thought about it when I got up the street, like, aw. You love the people. The GPS going off. Turn left. Go back and turn left.

And then I had to catch myself like, but again, I'm proud of myself because when you see growth in yourself, you got to, you know, commend yourself for growth. And, you know, people don't know to where I've come from. And I tell the stories a lot, you know, just to give people a little synopsis of how my life has been. But me, myself, seeing growth, because in that split incident, I

But then I caught myself like, man, you can't do that. Yeah. Because like I said, what's what you're going to do when you get there? Oh, I was going to do. Yeah. And then, you know, at the end of the day, was it worth it? You know, and I had these conversations with my son all the time, like, because when I say my son got like trigger trigger temper, that boy ain't nothing to play with. I tell anybody, you're going to catch my son. He ain't nothing to play with. He can go from smiling to a problem. And he ain't going to bother nobody.

But if you bother him, it's a wrap. It's a wrap. I'll be worried about my son all the time because it's a wrap because he ain't he ain't no Well, I say this y'all ain't no joke. He ain't no joke I mean don't bother. Nobody the most respectful peaceful dude ever, but if you bring it to his door Oh, yeah, he gonna answer like Like come on I know that feeling because I'm like that. So that's why I stay away. Yeah

you know, the way you see like the fire cracker and you got the wig on there and you light it and like, and then pop. For me, once it's lit, it's spot and I'm there. Yeah. So I take myself off and the ability to self talk yourself back because you will get upset. Things will happen that enraged you, but you, you know, to be able to quickly like, okay, hey, process this, you know, how far we gonna take this?

Where does it go? Where does it end? You know, to be able to quickly do that because it's a split second and one quick decision changes your whole life. You know, so just to think about that. So and then somebody reminded me to say, hey.

Right up the street from your house on a hundred seventy five to lack I've tried to leave to go somewhere and I was blocked off every time because the police had the road scrolls off because of a road rage incident that happened over by my house and it was all like all day they was out there looking for it looked like bullet cases and had the dog There was a whole thing. So yes, let me not leave. I'm a walkie, you know Talking about around the country stuff that's been going on. That's crazy. So

With that, let me let me shift for a second. Oh, well, let me do this. I'm just jump back and forth because I didn't really talk about it at great length, but.

As we talk about these, this issue with guns, we know that James Cawsey and John Dietrich, the good folks over at the Journal Sentinel, they had their second part of their series about guns in the community and they did an amazing session this past weekend. I wasn't able to attend, but saw feedback from the event, gun locks given out. People just talked about.

You know what we got to do to make sure that folks are safe as they are dealing with guns in our community But that there is and I think I briefly mentioned it last week. There is a new situation now in which If you are somebody who is a nonviolent felon you have the Pathway to have your gun rights restored your firearm rights restored

in this country. Now, what they've said is that there's always been a pathway, but Congress has intentionally blocked funding to go to process these applications since 1992. So technically, federal law has always provided a way for felons to restore their firearm rights. But if there is nobody to process your application, they de facto have not allowed

Felons to get their firearm rights restored. So it's one of those things, you know, Trump was told, hey, you can't dismantle the Department of Education. That requires an act of Congress. He's like, OK, but I can strip all the funding out of it. I can move all the programs around. And so, de facto, you end up accomplishing what the original spirit and intent

was in the first place. So now there is a new application that the Department of Justice has just finalized. And it is going to be on their portal where individuals with a nonviolent felony conviction can petition for gun rights restoration. These things are now automatic. They're going to review criminal histories, your reputation, public safety threats, all of that.

They're saying though what will make you ineligible violent felons register sex offenders undocumented immigrants But you know, I will also love to see how it plays out, you know me I'm gonna be looking at how it plays out racially what what goes on And I think that yeah, there are some things like if I got a case for you know

embezzlement from my company. And I did my time and I'm off paper and I'm done with everything. Should I never be able to have a firearm because I stole $100,000 from my company? I mean, that doesn't automatically transfer into, I'm getting ready to go do some violent and reckless with a gun, although it does call into question your judgment in the first place. And I think that some of the critics, that's what they're going to say is that

We're talking about people who have not demonstrated an exercise sound judgment and if you did something crazy over here Financially, would you do something crazy if your back was up against the wall or you felt like it was I don't know but just so you know that this is now, you know active and underway and I'm trying to see Have the application processes already started but

It is something that you can go to the DOJ website. And, you know, people were like, so should the January 6 people who, you know, got convicted? Should they be able to get gun restoration rights back? Well, a lot of people was pardoned anyway, you know, but this is something we need to reconcile with. And I'm going to be interested to see if there are black folks.

who apply for this and if they're able to get their gun rights restored. I got a caller. Let me go to the fall line. Hey, caller, what's happening? Hey, good morning, Michelle. Good morning. How are you doing? I'm good. How are you this morning? I am blessed by God this morning. Michelle, a question here. I'm just looking at if a U.S. Navy

Gentlemen name was his name was Doris Miller. Oh, yeah, I'm planning to talk about it this morning. I got it Yeah, I got it pulled up it's locked and loaded for this morning Well, you saw that foolishness then. Yes, definitely. I saw it last week. Oh my goodness Why is this guy is constantly wrecking this country?

I mean why I think a broader question is why is nobody stopping him? You know because I expect people to be destructive and narcissistic and crazy, but I expect That we have folks in place safeguards that was put in place by the

the crafters of the constitution to not allow some of this. And so at this point, I'm no longer looking at crazy Donald Trump. I'm looking at all the people around him that could stop it that are not. You remember when he made the statement that he can walk out in time square and take his life and get away with it. Yep. But the people who decided to vote for him after he said it.

That's that's why I gotta keep going because we know he's flawed We know there's something wrong with him. I'm talking about mental health. We know there's a problem there, but How do 80 million people hear this dude say yeah, I could kill somebody blow him away and y'all still vote for me and they say you know what you write and let me go vote for you like How does that happen?

I can grab women by the P and, you know, anybody gonna do nothing. You're right. Let me go do that. I mean, so now I keep looking back at the voters and members of Congress, you know, who have the ability to stop some of this. This man tore down a third of the White House. A third of the White House is gone. And ain't nobody said nothing. This is total.

Madness and but just you just look back then that are the former president Didn't did not do the things that this guy is doing, you know happen a UFC wrestling Then I thought where when he messed up that water whether But the towers and then he turned around and said that it was

And then it's called 15 million not cost another 15 million to restore it. Right. I mean, you know, this is well, you beat me to it. Go ahead. I'll listen to your comment. All right. No problem. Thank you, Brian. Keep doing what you're doing if I love you. All right. I appreciate it. Love you back. I appreciate the support. No, y'all. I mean, so because yeah, because I was going to make the pivot to Trump, I can do it.

I can do it now because I was going to start with the fact that Donald Trump had the race car foolishness, you know, going on in the streets of D.C. And when they first proposed doing this in honor of the 250th anniversary of the founding of this nation, you know, there was pushback from Congress.

There was pushback from people like Naw, because what is this masking rate cost? And this is a major metropolitan. This is the hub of the country. This is where the business take place. So he used an executive order to get around the pushback that he was receiving from Congress. And they put in 1.7 miles worth of, you know, an area around the White House and national monuments to create this racetrack.

And you have to take 250 laps around the track. You know, that's how many times they went around this less than two mile piece of real estate, but they closed down Reagan Airport to do this. So if you were flying in and out of DC, you had a problem yesterday or whatever day the race was. They, they closed the streets around the area for like 30 days.

So people who had to transact business, go to work, move around, business owners, shop owners, you losing money. And one of the things that Trump touted was, no, $35 million of this was paid for by corporations, Pinsky. But $68 million was paid by taxpayers for fire police security. That number is now upwards to $100 million.

And then there are dollars that we still don't know everything about by way of the cost, but a hundred million dollars in federal funding. Then the police fire and security costs now up to 90 million dollars. Think about that.

At a time when we are putting tariffs on people and folks can barely afford their housing, you know, gas feels a little bit better, but it's still higher than what it used to be. Just think about all of the different challenges we got going on. We depleting military, you know, reserves, messing around with Iran in a war that we didn't have to be in right now. But we got a hundred

almost $200 million of taxpayer money to trick off for a race in DC? Because I don't know about y'all, but this don't feel like no 250th anniversary of this nation's founding to me. I don't go nowhere in Wisconsin and feel like we celebrate 250 years of the nation's founding.

I don't feel like black people are part of the celebration at all or any other real groups for that matter. It just seemed like this is white boy celebration weekend or you know year or whatever. It just does not feel like anything that we are celebrating and it's hard to celebrate when you got all this other angst and turmoil, racial division, political animus, you know, how do you celebrate? But

They talked about, and I'm coming college, they talked about Trump being tone deaf. You got people who didn't have their healthcare subsidies dealt with at the beginning of the year. So you got American citizens who had healthcare before you took office, who no longer have healthcare now because they can't afford the premium. But we got $200 million to trick on one event. Then if you think about the stupid UFC fight, that's more millions of dollars.

But we can't get health care though It's people scared to go to the doctor right now because I can't pay the bill But we got four hundred million dollars to mess with some some sporting events Talking about we celebrate the nation's founding when the nation is sick Yes, Jermaine not only that but you got Pete that spent

Millions of dollars on crabs and tables and pianos and all this other stuff. That's not needed But the soldiers can't get quality food on the ship that partial But the soldiers can't get quality food on the ship. Let me take these calls real quick Hey, Carla, what's happening? Well, you have to understand you have failures

that's in this position. You have a man who's actually dying and right in front of everybody and nobody is questioning. But let's drop this gem on them. There's certain levels of Republicans. A blue mound and lily roll Republican will never be caught without West Atlas Republican. A Brookfield and Silver Spring drive Republican where the Indians and megamansions is will never be caught.

with a 60th in half than Republican. A Republican from Nacklewick are late. If you see them, what a Republican from 53206, they didn't hire any doing bad, dope, and they on the verge of losing everything they got, because there is a status in the Republican party. And all wealthy Republicans don't even like hanging with Poe White, let alone a darky, porch-bunky Republican. So they're trying to portray this.

But all of them are messing with bad dope. And you can see it in how they talk and how they walk. And there is no good junkies out here in the Republican party, because all of them is all messed up. Just look at how they move, they lift and they're like tranquilific. Help yourself for good day. I'm not lying, because I'm not flying. Bye-bye. Thank you, Al. Appreciate the call. Let me get to the next caller in. Hey, caller, what's happening? Hey, how you doing? How you doing, Michelle? All right. How you doing this morning?

I'm doing pretty good. Remember when the planes went into the building in 2011? That's the only time when an event happened like that, that we are coming together as a people. Now, what does it take for the ones that put Trump in office to come against Trump, his behavior and what he's doing? Does it take Trump to go around and

Just grab these people's daughters and wives in their body for them to wake up in real life. This guy, Trump, is no good. He did what he did in an F-stain file as far as raping kids and stuff. Do it take him to go around and do that to these people, wives and daughters, for them to wake up to go against Trump?

You know, at this point, bro, the question, I don't even have an answer because I mean, everything we've seen, but see, this is where racism, ethnocentricism and power is paramount to anything else we're talking about because I'm willing to watch all those things happen as long as I maintain my status.

As long as I'm still perceived as the top dog, the top race, the most valuable player on this field that we call life here in America, I don't want to lose my position. So I'm willing to, and if this the dude that can help me keep my position and you can help me talk about it in a way that's no longer demonized, you know, because you couldn't say racist stuff openly for a while in this country. You know, you will get shunned and pushed to the back. You get fired, lose your job. Trump has made it vogue.

to to openly call people to in words, say whatever you want to say, you know, question black people's intelligence, you know, dog folks because of a race and I don't want people praying five times a day is what Nancy May said. So if you if you're the person that will help me maintain my spot, I'm going to look past everything dirty that you're doing like these white Christian nationalists. I'm going to look past everything dirty that you're doing these Bible thumpers because

It's I'm getting what I want out of it. And so it's bigger. So I don't know, you know, what, what else he can do when people finally say enough is enough. The Epstein files, this man's name is in there thousands of times in relationship to sex, potentially with children and minors. And nothing, nothing. So, so thank you for the call, bro. But that question, yeah, good luck with that question. Because when you, when you, when people say how far is too far?

When is enough enough? When does Fannie Lou Hamer sick and tired kick in with this dude? But what these people have demonstrated as long as I'm getting what I want I'm willing to let him do what he is doing because I'm still I'm on top I'm being protected and until it comes to their door and They no longer are in what they feel like is protected status. You know when you got the

EEOC putting out commercials, white men, if you feel like you've been wronged in employment, call us. We've turned the DOJ and the EEOC and civil rights agencies into the arm of protect white people, in particular white men. That's what we've turned it into. The organizations that had to be created because of white men, because of the things that white men had done in this country,

supported by some white women. But because of that, we have to create all these institutions, these agencies, to be able to deal with those discriminations, discriminatory practices. But now, Donald Trump has come in and flipped all of that on his head, along with the people who wrote the plan, because all this ain't his plan. And now we're going to take those very agencies and turn them against the people that they were created to help in the first place. Bye.

The oppressor that was carrying out the axe now the oppressor is the victim and black folks is a big bad boogeyman Just just just make it make sense. So I'll talk about The aircraft carrier I'll be right back Michelle Bronte, you know VA 68 am 6.5 FM

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The video you just saw was taken right here at the union where students witness two LSU freshmen, one of which was dragging a black baby doll on a leash by a snack. We got to speak to the mother of the daughter who recorded the video to get her perspective on the situation. My name is Ebony Gray. I am the mother of the freshmen at LSU that recorded the video that's going around on campus. As a parent, what were some initial thoughts going through your head as you're watching the video and getting that call? Discussed, shocked.

I couldn't believe that it was happening. I do know that I'm 39. My daughter is freshly 18, so I've experienced and seen a lot. But just seeing all of that, so for her to be witnessing that, and school hasn't even started, and I just moved her in about three days ago, I was disgusted. Now, LSU Tiger TV did reach out to LSU Advocacy for comment which they declined. We also reached out to their Title IX for waiting to hear back from. To stay up to date, follow us right here on all our socials at Tiger TV. Now for Tiger TV, I'm Mila Fair.

So I wanted to just to that that brother who raised the question like when is enough enough and you know, and I talked about The openness by which people are displaying their their racism their ignorance Their prejudice and their biases one of the things that Clark said going into the break was yeah that you know made him think of the situation down at LSU in which a a student at LSU

literally tied a rope around the neck of a black baby doll and was dragging this doll through the union, the campus student union, where everybody sits and kicks it, you know, in between classes and just just walking through the, um, ca, the cafeteria, you know, the campus union, just dragging this doll, this black doll with a rope around his neck and his young black student, uh, Cassidy Taylor.

She started videotaping the whole thing like and she a freshman so you know you this your first year on campus in 2026 And you got some white girl walking through the through the you through the union With a rope around the neck of a black doll and just dragging it casually like it's something funny and something cute Do you know that white girl's name? No because the school ain't released it

Have you heard anything about what happened to that white girl? No, because ain't nobody saying nothing. Have you heard this story reported on a whole bunch of stations? No, you have not. But let it have been somebody doing something with a swastika and some Jewish people. You got university presidents that have lost their job because you're not doing enough to make Jewish students feel comfortable. Let it have been something that happened to a white girl on campus. But you

feel so comfortable that you go and see what should have happened is somebody should have dusted her behind. That's what should have happened. Not espoused in violence. So you think dusted however you want to but you bold enough to walk through the yard dragging a doll on a noose because that's what it is. Let's just call it what it is. And so this just happened.

And there is still no word yet on how the school has dealt with any of this. Why is that, is that girl still at campus? Is she still walking around on the yard? Was she disciplined at all? So that goes back to that question about how people feel so free to do whatever they want to. Now, hang on. I know cause I'm trying to work to see it. Let me, let me do this one as well. Okay. You ready?

Aim for an aircraft carrier that it's building potentially President Trump's name, but wait Because there's more because that carrier already had a name it was slated to honor this man Doris Dory Miller a black sailor who fearlessly jumped into action during Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor I'm talking about a war hero Miller was a mess attendant third class in rank

It was one of the only jobs in the Navy that was open to black men. The day of the attack, December 7th, 1941, a day that will live in infamy, he had just finished serving breakfast and was gathering laundry when the explosions started. Well, Miller aided his wounding commanding officer. He took control of an anti-aircraft gun without any training. His story was so powerful.

that Hollywood put it on the big screen in the movie Pearl Harbor. Why are you still using bots for your meetings? How else am I going to remember what happened? Hang on, I'll just let it, okay. Okay. I'm joined now by Doris Miller's great nephew,

Thomas Bledsoe. Thomas, thank you so much for being here. I know you and the rest of the family were not notified about this. So tell me, how did you react when you first heard that the future USS Doris Miller might be renamed and potentially after President Trump? So for our family, it was quite a shock to hear that there is worse conversation about the possibility of

renaming the divorce Miller carrier. And so not only was it a shock, but it was also a shock and that we found out from a news outlet comparably from the Navy. And so it caused a lot of concerns and uncertainty. And so for us, it immediately became a family group conversation about what is happening. What does it mean? Because

you know, in January 2020 was a big day for us when we went to the naming ceremony and got the opportunity to see what was happening and then to see Doris Miller get recognition in such a great way as we continue to fight for him to get recognition for the Congressional Medal of Honor as well. This wasn't just any ship naming as you've talked about. I mean, it was set to be the first aircraft carrier named for a Black American and an enlisted sailor. So what would be lost if his name is taken off this carrier?

So it has a great significance for that. One of the things about Doris Miller's story is not only about him being a hero that he was on that day at Pearl Harbor, but it was also about an individual stepping beyond the means of what they were assigned to do and going above and beyond. And that why not me moment was very significant, not only for the African-American community, but for Americans overall. It's a testament to how society can put you in boxes, but then being able to step outside of that and have great moments.

is such significance. And even more so, when I got an opportunity to hear my great grandfather Connery talk about his son, it wasn't just that Doris was a hero, it was that he was a son to someone, a brother to someone, and the significance of what African-Americans were going through at that time really played out their history and really showed one of the first steps into civil rights, one of the first steps into African-Americans being seen

outside of what society had placed on them. And so this isn't just about a name on a ship. It's about an opportunity and a goal. It's about a significance and what it means to be an American. And it's also about how we as a community can grow as one and become one towards one goal as a nation. It's so important.

We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.

When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Viola. The result of the new Viola EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks. Thanks to our partnership with Viola, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values.

I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them. It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.

All right, folks. So just real quick, before we went to break, I played a clip from CNN in which you actually got to hear from a member of Doris Dory Miller's family regarding, you know, information that had been circulated that the Navy and the Department of Defense is looking at not following through on a 2020

commission to name an aircraft carrier after this black military service member. It would be the first such naming after any black person in this country. Every every ship that bears a name of someone, it is someone that is, you know, white. And so. It just was crazy when you first heard about.

that not only were you like looking at so we can't get the Harriet Tubman $20 bill that had already been teed up by Barack Obama's team. Everything was done. We just got to figure out, you know, just implementation day. So Trump scraps the money that was going to bear the face of a black woman. He has, you know, done everything he can to dismantle DEI and his supporters. It's not just him. Diversity, equity, inclusion is such a dirty word that.

what did I say on the campaign trail here? Then candidate for governor, Sarah Rodriguez said, yeah, I don't use the term anymore. I don't say it. You look at all of the different ways, you know, trying to clown the black Smithsonian, putting signs of saying that the stuff going on inside these museums is not the truth. People not telling you the truth. All of these different things that this man's racism is openly on display. But the idea that you would then

want to put your name. Like for the NASCAR thing, they had a outrageously sized picture of Donald Trump hanging from one of the builders. When I went to DC earlier this year, I was like, it feels creepy in DC because it was big banners of Donald Trump's face that was like three building stories tall hanging on buildings. I was like, this feel like China.

Or Russia or North Korea it feels crazy here So yes an individual who Saves soldiers lives Who probably one of the most mistreated people on that ship? But this is the thing that killed me too. That's why I say racism is a powerful powerful thing

because all of these military loving flag waving back the military just like they say back the blue. We love our soldiers, but you don't love the black ones. We ain't gonna raise no hell about the way they do the black soldiers and the black enlisted and CQ Brown and the brothers that they just dispose of. So we love white soldiers. Let's be specific.

We honor and support the work of white soldiers. Let me go to the phone line. Hey, Caller, what's happening? Hello? All right, go to the next one. Get him in. Hey, Caller, what's happening? Good morning. Good morning, Kathy. How are you doing this morning? Good. I'll make it quick. You know, I want to bring it to someone's attention and we could talk about it later, especially during election season with judges.

The judge gave the girl who burnt down the girl's property over there, you know, nothing, time, a year in probation and $6,000 restitution goes to the state not to the business of hopefully insurance comes out to her. She should have done some serious time in jail and a lot of community service in a gang use location business. The other one is their judge child over in children's court. Three young men under 18 years old who killed the young guy.

white kid. I'm just gonna name the name by kid. I'm in an alley. I guess he was lost or looking for somebody to give him a ride home or whatever. They murdered him and trying to get some money from the kid. He was having money just came from an accessible and that happened last year. Well, they really didn't get much time. The other two got to go to trial, but there's other kids at nine months. What are the nine months of going to school?

at a correction place, didn't release his name. They gave him whatever reticent's name, but the family said that's all he got. That was just child. So I'm just telling people out here, look at some of these judges positions and how they rule on cases. You can look it up and they don't vote for him. If I was a parent, I'd rally vote him out office myself. I recall him because you're not gonna have my child murdered and this kid go to some conform school at 14 years old and he'll be out at 15. I mean, 16 years old, he'll probably be out nine months to do what?

All right, what is that all about? You know, can we see the pants? I mean, what's going on with that? We need to look at some of these judges when we start electing people and don't just let our judgeship go through with no competition at all. No one's running against these guys. We got to do better than that. I wouldn't want that to be my family member. And I really am not interested in someone saying, well, they look at the scenarios. He was wasn't this. He was the judge. He was in on it. Okay. And he should be getting more time. And after going to the tuning tension at 18, he need to go to a regular prison. He's not getting no reform.

He's getting a vacation. He'll get meals and a medical doctor. You don't have to see any psychiatrist. You ain't got enough on staff. And you can't help nobody out in nine months. You've got to put the whole family in therapy. But that's not fair. So I was telling old people out here, listen to this radio station. Look up these judges running for office and see how they sit with disproportionate people, OK? Nine months is not a reform for somebody who murdered somebody. Y'all have a nice day. All right. Thank you. I will just simply say this.

The caller is referencing, I'm sorry, Ellen Stevens. That's the 23 year old girl. I'm sorry, 23 year old young woman who caused a fire that ended up burning down the warehouse building over off a 32nd in West Hampton. We know connected to the Daniels family. The judge in that case is Judge Marisabel Cabrera, who is a former state representative. And she's the one that presided over that case. Ultimately,

the judge sentenced her to 12 months probation, 200 hours of community service, and a $6,000 fine or a restitution. But here's the thing. While I appreciate what Kathy is saying about the judges, you got to pay attention to the DAs because it was the district attorney's charging decision that sets the tone for what the judge can do. And because of the way it was charged, which is what a lot of people took exception with, the

the maximum penalty, nine months in county jail, a fine of $10,000 or both. That's all the judge could do. That's all the judge could do. So it's not just you gotta look at the judge when Kent Laverne is running for DA, you gotta talk to Kent Laverne and the district attorneys you putting around you. How do you let this get charged this way? So I will simply say that. Let me grab this last caller and good morning, Mr. Pierce. How you doing this morning, sir?

Hey, Caller, what's happening? Hey, James, good morning. Good morning. Can you hear me? I can't. You know what? I think it's at the end that you covered a whole lot this morning. And even from the driving reckless all the way down to now, then you talked about, you talked about the co-club's planning deal. And I must be totally honest with you. When you see things going on around the White House and stuff like that, these people are catering.

to a solid base, okay? They're pandering to a solid base, keeping it cemented together. You know, when you look at places like the New York Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, the Patriot Point, the Blair Tribe, and the Indian Brotherhood, see all of them people are different deals, but their ideology is the same. Now, we're the same, but we are splendored. We're sinners.

And while we've got to excuse them, I've got to get out of here. This is here. We are splintered. And while we are splintered, we fight each other. We actually fight each other. You know, these people don't. They keep the same ideology when we talk about bliss. When you listen to a song like Ready to Lose by, what's that boy name? Ready to lose by breaking it off. Now, when you listen to that right there,

That's a message, man. That's heavy. Just listen to it. Are you ready? I mean, ready to lose, not breaking law. That kind of music right there, there's a whole lot of that. But those, that's when you get, that's when you start looking around the White House and see anything. Now I do disagree with Trump, believing, touching the historical White House. I don't like that at all, because that's historical, you know, and, but, but, you know, people do what they do, and he's a nostregist. Anytime you put his name up in big light, you've got some come, you've got to try as come.

Okay, and that's what I've been sad to say that our black people, especially our black caucuses, could not see that. They're so entwined with the party regime that they couldn't. So, hey man, this ain't a man named Light and go for the gusto. Okay, so I'm up against the break, so I gotta let you go, and I thank you and appreciate the call. Thank you. But the one thing I will say, only you.

Only you could call in and turn this into what black folks doing wrong only you Only you Negro could call in and turn this into Let me educate you black folks about what y'all need to do to kiss trumps behind so that y'all can come up. That's the dumbest thing All right, I gotta end the show I didn't get a chance to do it. Hopefully Keith will get an opportunity to mention it, but my man Mr. Eddie

Michael Wright, you got him. All right. So I figured you would do justice. So family, that's the show for today, bros. I appreciate y'all. Peace.

You know what?

No talking from you.

Before we start the show, you don't talk until I point to you.

Because you mess me up every time it's about to, it's time to start the show.

You act like you got good sense right up until 6.59.

Do not lose

it.

I'm just, I'm just, I'm sick of you, Jermaine.

It'll make no sense, man.

It just makes no sense.

Oh, it

is the chair.

It is the chair.

We got a hiring pattern

around

here.

Good

morning.

Good morning.

What's happening?

Family, welcome to whatever this is this morning.

This is Michelle Brown here at WNOV 860 AM 106.5 FM.

You are listening to say something real.

You make me feel like I need a whole another weekend just five minutes in the studio with you and I need

Thursday to be right now It's too much.

It's too much.

Let me say good morning to the gentleman in the studio.

What's going on Clark Kent?

Man, I don't know today.

I

don't know today.

I would have to rethink my life up here How was your weekend

bruh?

Yes, it was.

Did we do anything fabulous?

Did we DJ?

Did we

kick it?

No, you know, I did that with my friend birthday with Deebo down in the chairs.

Oh, didn't I end up going to a dance one of them?

Biker dance.

Did you dance at

the dance?

Well, I

know we got like the stepping community, the brother steel dance, but and I was actually, I had like a moment, uh, this weekend where.

I wanted to show somebody this lady out of Chicago that I like.

That's a stepper.

And so I went and found this video, this competition she was in.

Man, I must have watched 1700 stepper videos

after I did that.

Because it's such a beautiful

art.

Oh my God, the little twirling and spinning it with the sisters being jazzy.

Because you know, everything I had learned was like, you know, sisters is really keeping time for the brothers.

And

the

brothers is the ones that get to show out.

world and step away, walk back, spit into women at the same time.

And I'm like, you know what?

Oh, no, play, no player.

If you think I'm not about to shine, you must be crazy.

Oh, so I was watching that.

And I'ma tell you, but I also think that to some level stepping ruined it for everybody else that go to the club.

Because in Milwaukee, if you're not stepping when you go out, there is no regular dancing unless you go to like real young, you know, young, young spots.

There is no dancing.

I remember like, you know, you could go to Sibonese and just get it in.

Right.

Mr. J's get it in.

But you know, the everything changed and if you could step and I can't step, you know, I could do a little two step.

But after the two step, I'm done.

That's what we was talking about because we like, we go like, I go to St.

Louis and like Detroit, they dance.

Yeah, still dance.

They don't dance here.

If

you can't step, you are not on the floor.

You in the way.

And the only time you get to hop up is when they do a live dance.

Yeah, we would be so happy.

Everybody be so happy.

You can jump up, do a little live dance, throw in your own little improvisations on some of the steps.

But just in terms of

going to a party and just dancing, nah man.

Like Jay, at your party, people was able to just dance.

But it is one of those things that I'm like, yeah, y'all gotta mess up the game for everybody else.

And Milwaukee always takes stuff too far.

It's like, y'all, it's a balance.

It's a balance.

Let the regular people dance.

You got some

people creep walking.

What are we doing, man?

Like, man, what

are we doing, man?

I mean, even when we was coming up as teenagers, we was out there dancing, you know what I'm saying?

Man, I'm

talking about

you already knew.

You was going to switch

your hair out.

No, this is how crazy dancing was.

This is an honest to God truth.

Now, you know, like in the movies, when they used to fight each other, they used to fight each other.

Yeah, pop lock and stuff.

So they look at each other.

Right here in the god in school.

Yeah, that's how we settle

be

Oh, it's so bad to do it.

Rockin' the God.

Rockin'

the

God.

And how you do the eye

part again.

That's the news all the time.

But how you knew that you won was when the crowd be like, oh, shit.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

The

crowd.

You live to dance another day.

I'm serious.

I'm serious

about your books all the way.

I appreciate it

more than what we got now in terms of drama.

How was your weekend, Jay?

How was it?

Well,

yeah.

You know, I made a lot of money this weekend.

Hey!

What we doing?

So this

week

should be

good.

Hey!

What you

saying?

Can I get

something?

Can I

hold it with something?

That was a great weekend.

You

need to share.

Hey,

I mean, being out at the zoo for the alley cart zoo thing.

It was nice.

They had several.

That was out there.

Take it.

What was you there?

Well, I was on the Flamingo stage on Saturday.

Oh, OK.

Kisha was out there Sunday.

Yeah.

They did

Allison.

Yeah.

Kisha

said it

was back yesterday.

Yeah.

So you were out there

playing.

I made a couple bucks, a whole bunch of bucks.

And you were on the Flamingo stage?

Flamingo stage.

Oh, OK.

So we hit at, what was it like, four something, five something?

Oh, man, that was so new.

Down there, it was super nice.

It was people everywhere.

Yeah, I heard it was a great crowd.

It was crazy.

It was diverse.

Yeah, and they was just, they was into it.

I mean, now, some of the moves I was sending out there as I was playing.

I swear it looked like I was watching Charlie Brown over here.

Some of these dance moves on the where they

came from.

Hey, as long as people was moving, though.

Oh, yeah, that was moving and grooving.

Yeah.

And there was a lot of fun.

You know, you

can get these

stiff, stiff audiences.

They act like, I'm like, why do you come out?

Yeah, you didn't come to clap.

You didn't come to, like, you know,

Show any any love to the artist.

Why are you here?

Right?

I can't say people that go to show I say this all the time now Anybody that listen on a regular basis.

They know that's my pet peeve Don't come to a show and then sit up like you today.

I'm good to clap like all of that irks my soul, right?

Why you bring your butt out

here?

No, I do have to say our colleague

When he first came to my very first show, I didn't know how to read it.

Keith

this cat was sitting there like

cuz he ridiculous

Because he's

always been trying to look like he just so serious Into it.

He's just a square

But at the end, I do have to say, he was like, man, great job.

Yeah.

But I didn't know that George just

can't.

Yeah, you cannot.

You cannot.

Because you could be somewhere where Keith and then you come.

Like, I think that was at that one dinner.

Was there at the whole thing talked to him sat next to him, you know and all his foolishness and then when he get back to station Oh, Michelle had on a free

outfit.

Oh, right.

Well, you ain't saying that

about my outfit when you saw me

You know, you'll be looking like a rag doll.

So yeah, Keith ain't no good judge I mean, no no good barometer.

You can't read his face Yeah, he'll leave you hanging

Well, look, let me say good morning to everybody that is online this morning.

I see folks checking in Yeah, my girl eval can you like I still hold my spot every

day

Hey, Dorothy Jean can't say your name and I think about key.

Hey, Irvana.

What's going on a walters?

We got zebra.

I need to find out who is zebra S3 and and I saw somebody said they were a dialysis this morning.

Hey keep on doing that

Keep on doing that.

Stay up, stay healthy, doing what you're supposed to.

Somebody say shout out to the Mexican Fiesta.

We had an awesome... Hey, you need to stop that.

I heard you on Friday.

That racist nonsense.

That is racist as hell.

You need to stop that.

I was so mad when you was talking to Keith and DJ and I was trying to call in but I was about to wreck the car trying

to text and

drive.

So I said let me put this phone

down.

But dude you're so racist

and ignorant.

I said I'll say Carmen McGee will come

in and bust him in his

head because he all making that ridiculous sound and then all your little comments.

I was like oh yeah I'm glad you did that because I

want

to check you.

You, you racist me.

You

need to stop.

You need to stop.

I don't know.

You need to stop.

Okay.

Cause you know, and how do you say, how

do you say,

uh, sorry, uh,

how do you

say, uh, you, you, I'm done with you.

I'm done with you, but I'm glad you did do that though.

Cause I was like,

this is racist.

Can't make it that stupid.

I was like, I can't wait to see you.

Somebody said I'm sick of live every single song Oh,

but I was watching I've been watching a lot of Asian movies lately and They had a fight with fans Back in it, you know back in the day and I was like, oh they used to fight with it.

It was like more

You know, artistic kind of thing, but they had the fans and they like, you know,

like slicing folks with the fans.

It was incredible.

So was you watching the one that the audio, it was ahead of their lips.

No, no, no,

no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

English, they had English voice overlays or whatever the correct term is.

And so I'm sick of

you.

All right.

So yeah, somebody wanted to know what kind of hat am I wearing?

This hat is actually a hat that I picked up at the Fresh Coast Jazz Festival.

I ended up going on Friday night.

Miss the first man.

I think they were like hometown all stars or something miss them But I got to see I think the sister's name was Candice and I have seen Candice before but I Never like committed her name to like memory But she is phenomenal and she had a sister who was

uh playing I think the cello and she her last name was Brian actually Julia our train she was amazing and then they had a drummer from New York a female drummer from New York a beast and she knew she was a beast like plays with everybody the biggest names all over the world but when I tell you this woman had the

the confidence and the the skills to rival anybody in the in the game.

This woman was incredible.

So, then Spiral Gyro came on and I had a moment with them because they played this song that one of the brothers who's a guitarist in Spiral Gyro, he played, he had written and

produced this song called Dancing on Table Mountain.

And when I went to South Africa in Cape Town, that's where Table Mountain is.

And so my friend Vivica insisted we got to go see Table Mountain.

And I'm like, it's a mountain dude.

I really have to go.

It seems like we're going up in this cable car and we're going to view Table Mountain.

It was incredible.

The view was beautiful.

Glad I did it.

And so then to hear this song about Table Mountain, it was crazy.

Um, and then this one bag that I was carrying, I had actually gotten from my friend, uh, who lives in LA or lives in, um, in, uh, Cali.

So it just was a cool, it was a cool full circle moment, uh, at the show.

So the show was amazing.

Uh, what's the best name?

Is it Randy, um, Crawford?

What's the guy's name?

Who does first goes?

I always forget his own name.

Um, let me see if I can remember his name.

I know Keith would know.

He'd like see that's why.

I know what I've been talking about.

Another man is, hang on, hang on, hang on.

No, that ain't it.

But anyway, I'll find it.

So I had an amazing time.

I saw a ton of people I knew, sitting right next to my Sarah and her husband, didn't even look over because I was too busy enjoying myself.

When the lights came up, they was like, Michelle, my bad.

So it was really cool.

So that was the only fun thing I got to do this weekend.

Everything else was work.

And I just told Jermaine, literally I walked in the door and was like, yeah, I need the weekend to come up.

Even though next weekend is going to be just as crazy as this weekend was.

All of that was cool.

It was it was good though to hang out and just take some downtime because if I was trying to make my mind if I was gonna go and I was like hey Go enjoy yourself.

Just go go enjoy yourself and I did I had a great time.

I had an absolute great time.

So this hat actually came from Carl Brown.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I knew I knew thank you Keith

So this hat actually came from fresh coast jazz festival and they had like a lot of them that was really fly but I don't really do this look because it's a trucker look to me and I'm not I'm not real fine of the trucker look Yeah, but I like the I like the hat though and when

that's wait on

it.

No, you know, I

know this

baby sweet and so

when I had picked up another one and then I put that one back and the lady was like, let me show you this one.

And when she showed me this one, I was like, oh yeah, this, yeah, this is the money right here.

So yep, it came from there and this is my second day wearing it.

Somebody just said I got to see Chris Brown in usher in Chicago.

My sister was over there.

She went to go see him as well.

How much did tickets you say $12,000?

Well, I don't know what I don't know what all the feedback is I know my sorrow said that Usher look like an old man compared to Chris Brown Yeah, cuz you know Chris Brown number one boy state state Cut up fit.

Yeah, you know dancing is clearly his passion.

So he makes sure he able to do all of that And us sure is getting seasoned I think he just get ready get his son ready go to college

Yeah, I think Usher Sun started Howard this semester.

Really?

Yeah, I think so.

If I'm not mistaken, I thought I saw an article, let me look real quick, that Usher Sun was going to college.

And I was like, dang, this thing still got his oldest son, Senko, is attending Howard University.

Does it remember?

Yep, he just went in.

Yep.

I just saw that.

I knew I saw that.

He was there on the freshman penance ceremony and I was like, dang, you got a child in college.

So anyway, so yeah, I'm glad to hear people got out, enjoyed themselves.

She said usher look good.

Well, he always look good.

And I'm gonna tell you, they got this thing.

It's a short and they go into stars homes and they went into usher's house.

That boy house is crazy.

man with some change will do for you.

When I say, you think you had nice stuff, right?

Like, oh, this is nice.

Man, you go to some people's house and the foyer look better than your whole

house.

It's madness.

We was working with us earlier back in the day.

He had baby face old house.

So he had his crib.

Okay.

when I tell you the crib was amazing.

Like he took us through it.

And then he took us to the back house to the studio.

Okay.

Like it like this land and just I was like, man, let's hear money having that kind of money.

Yeah, I mean, you know, and you don't always like, you know, you don't always appreciate like what is out there.

You know, the places that like you never will shop.

Because your money just won't put you in them places or the things that you don't even know exists You know cuz I remember like the first time I was in Lenox mall and you know You could walk around in Lenox mall and pick up purses that cost $25,000 and

they

weren't locked up.

They went locked up $12,000 purses, you know, I'm in this store in Lenox and I'm like this is beautiful and because it's Atlanta and They don't know who got money

everybody got treated with respect.

Yeah.

Because, you know, rappers coming through spending, you know, ignorant money, you didn't know who had money.

And so they treated every customer like, yeah, you may be getting red drop this brandy here.

Um, but I was looking at stuff.

I was like, so I just want to be clear.

This purse costs 20.

No, I picked up a belt that was $12,000.

The belt.

And I was like, this is madness.

And I just saw another NFL player got robbed.

Yeah, they said they took $300,000 worth of stuff from them.

And then they said they were bags.

So I don't know if it was like, you know, luggage or what kind of bags it was.

But yeah, another and it's that's like the third one.

They robbed this house while he was at he was out and

again.

It seemed like it's a corporate crime.

You know, that's going on.

It's

connected.

It's inside thing, but you just got it.

They know when they leave and they know who not there.

Well, yeah, that's because they're doing homework.

Right.

Because this guy, what's his name?

C.D.

Lamb?

Yeah, C.D.

Lamb from Dallas.

Yeah.

So he was robbed and they said $300,000 worth of stuff stolen from his house.

And look, you're only 27 years old, $300,000 worth of stuff.

But I don't understand.

And they were bad.

She

said

four luxury bags were

stolen.

So when you're in that position, how do you not have security?

Because number one, you think about where some of these people live.

So you're not even thinking that everybody going to have access to your community because a lot of these are gated communities or, you know, like.

You got to know somebody to know somebody to be up in the neighborhoods where some of these houses are located.

So I think you get a false sense of security.

It's just like I was messing with some of my friends who have moved to the suburbs and they doors be left unlocked.

Car doors don't be locked, keys be in the car.

And they're like, don't happen out here.

So you get logged into a false sense of security because of where you live.

You know, like, ain't nobody around here stealing everybody around here.

Got stuff.

And I'm not thinking about, though, who has been given access and introduced and brought into the community, and they end up wiping you out.

But yeah, just in his case, it was for four luxury bags.

So all right, y'all, I'll take my first break of the morning.

A number of things I want to get to this morning.

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So let me just take a moment before I start getting into some of the top line issues of the day, just to say first of all, and thank Jermaine for flagging and forming.

So remember, we talked extensively about the sister Sonia Massey, who had called for help to her home in Illinois, a suspected either prowler or.

that somebody was, you know, by her house and it might have been an issue.

And the officers responded and she was actually boiling water.

I think for a cup of tea or something, when officers got to the house, officers told her, turn off the pot with the water in it.

And he said, you know, we don't want to cause a situation or something like that.

And she said, oh, I rebuked that in the name of Jesus and the officer.

who evidently, you know, not necessarily familiar with black, you know, vernacular diversity, whatever.

He took that to mean that she was threatening him or planning to douse him with the hot water.

And he shot and killed this woman in her home after she had called for help.

This was back in 2024.

So,

He ultimately was put on trial for her death.

And the trial happened last year, 2025.

And he was given a 20-year sentence, second-degree murder.

The jury had an option.

They could go with first-degree or second.

They went with second-degree murder.

He was given 20 years in prison for killing this woman.

And there was a lot of public protests.

People were upset.

because there have been protests all along, you know, from when he first shot the woman right up until even the sentencing, which people are just like, so her life was worth 20 years.

But interestingly enough, before he ever encountered Sonia Massey in 2023, he had been diagnosed with stage three colon cancer.

So he was fighting colon cancer when he was on the job.

And he gets convicted.

Stanstown 2024 is convicted.

2025, he's in prison.

I'm sorry, 2025, he's in prison.

And he then reaches stage four, colon cancer.

And so they said by that time, the cancer has spread to his liver, lungs, rectum.

And he...

to get basically a compassionate release, a medical release.

Because at this point, he's now terminal.

And the Illinois Prison Review Board had denied the application.

He passed away.

Passed away in prison.

They just announced it.

And it's just kind of interesting and crazy all at the same time to understand how this whole thing has ended up in playing out.

But yeah, he passed away.

One of the things that people had talked about during the time that Sonia Massey was killed was that she had been suffering mental health challenges, had admitted herself into a 38 inpatient program the week before her death.

and then ended up going home.

But even though they tried to make that central to what was going on with him and the way he responded and shooting her, he had already told her, I will shoot you in your head.

He told her that.

And so you can't go, oh, he was fearful for his life for a pot of water and blah, blah, blah.

She made no gesture to burn him, to pick up the pot and throw it towards him.

But that mental health piece, because in Sandra Bland's case, when she was found hung in a jail cell, and a lot of the hangings that we have been watching that have been reported around the country, primarily in the South, everybody wants to say that all these black people had mental health issues.

At first glance, we certainly push back on some of these narratives because since when did we just start hanging ourselves?

You just it takes a lot of work to do that and thought and You know having what you need to be able to put yourself in position.

It's just a crazy way by which to To deal with your your suffering but Along that same vein There is a video out of Detroit

Michigan that over the last couple of days Two women went into a liquor store to pick up some stuff and They passed a young brother Hang on just pulling up the story they passed a young brother

while they were going into the liquor store and He Like open the door they was gonna come through and he just pulled out a gun and shot and killed one woman and He wounded the other woman, but she survived For no reason the video

Jermaine shared the video with me this morning, but the video is madness But he just a young brother walking, you know, he don't have his gasoline short song no shirt on and He literally just walks by these women and you can see it's clear as day like there's no interaction with these women and He just pulls out a gun

And shoots the one lady and kills her and shoots at the other lady.

They now have this young person in custody.

He's 15 years old.

He is 15 years

old.

He is 15.

He is 15 years old.

And so there was reports that he

Had suffered from mental health issues, but 15 years old He was arrested Again randomly shooting two women the team was apparently carrying his mom's obituary because if you look at the photo he has a Kind of book thing booklet in his hand

Go back and look at the video.

He got it in his hand.

The team was apparently carrying his mom's obituary when he opened fire on these two women walking into the, when he was walking into the liquor store.

Reports said he had never spoken to the women before shooting.

Police are going back to look at the security camera, but some of that security video has already been released.

If you are somebody that is familiar with the Detroit area, they said this was near Warren and Chalmers on the east side of Detroit.

uh a 57 year old woman is a person who died and she was with her niece um and so the Detroit police have put his picture out uh you know so that folks can help identify him and tell people obviously you need to be on guard this young man is dangerous but people you know quickly figure out who it was the police were able to get him and get him in custody

So are you, you know, so now more investigation will happen.

How long ago did his mother pass?

You know, what were you going through as a result of that?

And literally how you are walking around with your mother's obituary in your hand and turn around and potentially kill somebody else's mother?

Because I don't know if the 57 year old had children, but so.

on some of this stuff, when we talk about mental health, we've got to be willing to concede that there are some things that are going on with people.

There are some things that are going on with people.

So we will wait to kind of hear the rest of the backstory on that, but when I say that was crazy, that, and you can tell these young, you know, but I gave them like 18 to 20, somewhere near, but 15,

15 And you know Jermaine talked about the eeriness of it this morning when we were talking about it before the show started that You you never know you just minding your own business you walking into a walking out of a store and Just like that your life is over or you've been put in the way in harm's way So did you want to say something

Jack?

I was just saying man.

I think about

You know when you walk past these people at these gas stations and they ask for change and You know Some of these guys if you you know say no, you know, they get real real aggressive with you like ah or if you or if you give them You know change and they see like the dollar what can I have a dollar?

Whatever case is and your response

can really dictate their actions.

So you can say something like, no, I ain't got nothing.

Move around.

And then it'll trigger something in them that they're in the stabbing, shooting you or whatever.

Like, you don't know.

And I mean, I think about just, you know, my kids moving freely, you know, going into the stores and in and out of family members or even friends that you just never know that what a person is thinking when you walk past them.

And so, for me, I just try to be kind to everybody.

I'm not saying that these young ladies was doing anything inappropriate because from the video, it don't look like they said anything.

They just walked by.

But for me, I just try to be nice to everybody because you never know what a person is thinking.

So you just try to offset, you know, if they having a bad day, they outside and they got all type of thoughts with it.

you come through with shows of love, it might offset that thought of them doing something to you.

And excuse me, one of the things that I frequently have said when people, you know, some of, you know, stop giving these people money because when you give them money, you know, they continue to do what it just makes it worse.

And I just always have come from it from a different lens, which is if I'm, if I hand you money, then potentially you don't have to steal money and you don't have to harm somebody to get some

money.

And so this isn't always just for that individual.

It's also sometimes just helping to keep the community safe and keeping and keeping peace, you know And I appreciate the fact that you out here willing to at least ask and not somewhere trying to rob somebody and steal you know and harm somebody I mean like literally I had my window on my car broken out and

the only thing that the person took was some change.

I had my son's Christmas toys littered the whole back of my hatchback because I had a sports car and all kinds of stuff was in that car because I only had came home.

I was stopping to run in and do something and then got on the phone, started messing around.

And then I was going to go back out because I was going someplace else.

But in that window, and it was late.

It was like about 11 o'clock at night.

In that window, somebody came through.

I had my bag on the back seat, my computer was in the car.

They didn't take none of that stuff.

They took the change out of my center console.

And so, you know, my window.

versus having somebody a couple of dollars.

So that has kind of been the thinking.

But when I just say that, you know, and we think about, oh, the homeless person asking for change, but this could be anybody that is capable of this madness.

Another story that kind of stood out.

And again, not here in town, but a young sister, they just had her funeral service on Saturday.

down in north Memphis.

Okay.

Um, this sister had just graduated, uh, and completed her PhD.

So she had become Dr. Chandrika Haslett.

Uh, and they were having a graduation party and she was, you know, there at this house at the party and some young cats came through, shot up the house.

They shot five people for survive.

This young sister who had just completed her, her PhD, um, her doctor, she just got it.

Um, she ends up being killed.

One of the young people that they arrested for, cause they got three people in custody now is 16 years old.

So at 16 and the other two, uh, suspects 25 years old.

They vote for 25.

So that's the thing that's so crazy that you will come into a house full of people.

Folks are here kicking and having a good time, whatever they doing, and you are open fire with no regard for who these bullets may hit and take out.

So it was considered a mass shooting down in Memphis, but no regard.

But that one of these suspects, one of the people involved was only 16 years old.

There are definitely things that are going on in our community that we've got people in to talk about.

That is why the days that I will hear Kweku them talking about trauma or different groups, you know, even like when Keon was here, he would bring through all these different mental health experts and panelists and have these and sometimes just the street committee.

Just

the

street community because they'll always require a degree and a PhD the street committee could come through and talk about you know, what was going on and how people got to a certain place and You know what we need to do in terms of helping people and looking for signs It's some young people dealing with crazy stuff and they it shows up badly in our community But usually

If I sit that 16 year old down in Memphis, if I sit this 15 year old down in Detroit and say, so walk me through what's going on, how we get here.

Usually those stories are going to be crazy.

They usually not always, but usually the stories are going to be crazy.

So I just wanted to flag that if you see someone.

that is in mental health crisis.

They need some resources, additional help.

Please do not hesitate to reach out.

There is a national hotline that you can call, but you can simply dial 988 or 211.

988 is suicide and crisis hotline.

211 is general.

911, if it's an immediate emergency.

And in Milwaukee, our mobile, 24 hour crisis line, 414-257-7222 or simply text to 988.

But we have got to be able to help people.

And when we see something, say something.

Because somebody knew that that 15 year old in Detroit, that something was wrong with that boy.

That he was going through something.

If somebody has said something, potentially that sister is alive right now.

Let me take a break.

I'll be right

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right, family.

So before I transition away from the whole mental health conversation, I talked about other cities.

Let me include my walking.

Let me bring in the meal.

So there was conversation.

Some folks, in fact, Jermaine,

mentioning that he actually had driven through the scene after it happened.

But many of you may have heard about that there was a road rage incident that happened either Friday, Saturday,

Saturday

morning here in Milwaukee.

A one year old child ended up being shot as a result of two adults near Sherman and Capital who get into it in terms of

you know, some type of road rage situation, they exchange gunfire, okay?

And the one year old child ends up getting shot while these two grown people who can't figure out how to share the road, be respectful courteous drivers, whatever the situation is, talking ignorant to one another.

Who gets out shooting?

When a child I'm not shooting anyway because of row rage, but then it's a child in the car and so the The condition of the little baby was not immediately known But you know they did did not die obviously But it's just it's just madness both drivers are now in custody

pending a review by the DA about which charges that they're going to face.

And this comes on the heels of last week, an 18-year-old fairly shot, a 44-year-old woman during a road rage dispute near, that's on the south side, South 10th Street in Lapa.

A month earlier, 48-year-old man was shot and killed.

This was also connected to a road rage incident.

So when we think about

and we talk about the people wandering the streets and begging for change.

And the lady we had dealing with across the street the other week or so ago, where she's passed out in front of the gas station door.

That's what immediately comes to people mind.

You don't think about the car sitting next to you.

And who's driving that car?

And what could go on when you throw up the bird or you don't let somebody pass?

And I'm gonna tell you.

like when people run red lights it irks my soul.

I lay on my horn like a crazy person when people run red lights because I want you to at least know somebody see you and it's out of order but it's never lost on me that somebody could turn around and fire in my direction.

You know Shale I have to admit and again I thank God for growth because for me what used to really grind my

gears is when I'm gonna say it it's when you're driving and a white person used to flip you off oh yeah speed off

right

that used to light something in me that I would chase them and I found myself saying to myself oh so you're gonna be tough and flip me off but then now that I'm at you

you running and swerving and trying to get away.

Oh, yeah.

Trying to catch it but they're not thought about it.

What's you gonna do when you catch him?

Well, if you, if you my nephew, you, you gonna shoot him.

Well, my nephew did it

right here.

Oh, I don't know.

He was on their freeway and him and his white dude got into a road race situation and

White dude was like pull over my nephew was like I pull over and if you pulled over and My nephew had a hoodie on and the white dude got out the car He was talking real strong and wrong and he was like I shoot the blood way way out of you and he I guess he had his firearm and my nephew shot him through his

hoodie

And he shot him in the leg when he shot through his hoodie and the guy called 911 and

He tells him, you know, I've been shot and my nephew drove off.

And so he called 911 and 911 says, you know, what happened?

And the guy, you hear the guy say, well, I did threaten to shoot him first.

And so, but the thing that was crazy.

So the district attorney charged my nephew.

No, they charge him with like attempted murder or something as they charge him for real for real.

They charged him and a jury acquitted him.

Because the jury was like, dude told him he was gonna shoot him.

So he shot him first.

So no, that was self-defense.

So he got off.

We weren't expecting him to get off.

But he got off.

But I'm just telling you, that ain't how

I go.

That's