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Before we went to break, we were talking about touching on the Carmelo Anthony case.
And we're not talking about the former NBA player.
We are talking about the young man who was currently on trial for the murder of his peer.
And prosecutors revealed new evidence that jurors never heard during Carmelo Anthony's murder trial, including allegations that he fantasized about stabbing someone and licking the blood off of a blade according to the report.
The Daily Mail reported that the allegations surfaced on Thursday during a hearing following Anthony's request for a new trial in the April 2025 stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas.
Carmelo, now 19, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison in June.
He admitted stabbing Metcab but said he acted in self-defense amid a confrontation and jurors rejected that argument.
During Thursday's hearing, state prosecutor Bill Wiresky said evidence excluded from the trial included text messages in which Anthony alleged thought about stabbing someone just hours before he killed Metcab.
He said there, according to the report, it said, there is a text message where he fantasized about stabbing someone and licking the blood off the blade.
A wire sky said the media outlet reported another text message recovered from Anthony's phone alleging included allegedly included a photo of a knife as well as the words I'm low-key on the verge per the outlet.
Um, wire sky reportedly said Anthony's ex-girlfriend had told a school administrator she was afraid of Anthony and accused him of stalking her.
The Daily Mail also reported that Anthony's lawyers had damaging evidence against Austin Metcalf in his twin brother Hunter.
Sighted in court documents, the outlet noted that Anthony's attorneys had photos of graffiti alleging that Metcalf twins in a third body.
Which is another person spray painted KKK kill all black people Hill Hitler as well as a racial slur According to the report the evidence was withheld because prosecutors and Anthony in Anthony's trial Had an informal gentlemen's agreement to focus solely on what happened under the tent that day and avoid introducing potentially inflammatory evidence
about Anthony and Madcap.
So here's the crazy thing in all of this to me.
First and foremost, I hated to even read that primarily because whenever it comes to a young black male stating that they need to defend themselves or that it was self-defense, then they're always obviously going to try and find something on on them, you know, to kind of discredit their character.
And to be fair, if this was the case, right, where he did text that,
Then obviously though that can be viewed as premeditation But to completely exclude the text messages both sides initially stating that they have a gentleman's You know request or whatever it's called I get it but at the same time I don't Because no matter who it is at the end of the day if something is premeditated If someone is really feeling away
I'm not talking about in a sense of he's doing it just because he wants to do it that like he's a psycho, but I'm speaking speaking about it in a way of What was actually happening prior to this day to make him feel that way, right?
Why was he so angry?
Why did he feel the need to?
Want to fight the twins or what were they doing to him as well just trying to figure it out and you know make it make sense
But I don't think that's something that should have been left out.
I don't believe that they should have left those text messages out.
I believe that initially it should have obviously is out now, so they should have introduced it.
during that time as well.
Also in Carmelo's case, the judge who presided over his murder trial is no longer deciding the motion for a new trial.
Judge John Roach Jr.
was removed from the post trial proceedings.
Roach had given a television interview after the conviction and publicly said, the jury got it right.
Retired judge Michael Chitty is now presiding over the new trial hearing.
Again, I don't know how much this helps his case or hurts his case after the new leaked text messages between him and his ex-girlfriend.
So just to reiterate for those who are joining us, here's what came out this week surrounding Carmelo Anthony's case.
During the original murder case prosecutors and Carmelo Anthony's attorneys had an off-the-record agreement concerning character evidence the state and background information concerning
Anthony
the defense had background information concerning the Metcalf twins as well that information stayed out of the original murder trial and now we are hearing what was in those records so
Prosecutors disclosed messages recovered from Anthony's phone.
According to testimony in the hearing, those messages showed repeated discussions involving guns, knives, and fighting.
There were older messages discussing violence.
There were photos or videos involving firearms.
There were messages discussing carrying guns.
And there were messages involving knives.
Now let's narrow this down to the morning of the killing so on April 2nd 2025 according to evidence disclosed at the hearing Anthony sent his former girlfriend a message at approximately one o'clock that morning saying he was low-key on the verge Later that morning his former girlfriend went to a school official She reported concerns about Anthony's behavior after their breakup and said he was refusing to accept that the relationship had ended
Reporting from the hearing says Anthony also sent her a photograph involving a knife that morning.
Less than two hours after she spoke with the school administrator, Anthony ended up fatally stabbing Austin Beckham during the track meet.
Now, um, I don't know how this is going to play out because when you read it, it sounds like he was filling away.
based off of the breakup with his girlfriend.
And that sent him over the edge on top of whatever was going on with him and the Mac have twins prior to the breakup, right?
And I get it, we all have a breaking point at some point.
But to me, it still feels like there's a lot of different, a lot of missing information surrounding this.
Like there has to be more.
What I don't personally believe that he's just going to send those messages.
Just because I don't even know if the messages are real or if they are true And I most definitely want to know if his girlfriend is black or white because that matters as well The confrontation happened under a team tent Witnesses testimony from the original case described an argument over Anthony being inside the tent Metcalf attempted to remove Anthony the confrontation became physical Anthony pulled a knife and stabbed Metcalf once in the chest
Anthony acknowledged the stabbing.
His trial defense argued self-defense, and the jury convicted him of murder.
The records disclosed this week contain additional messages attributed to Anthony involving fighting in weapons.
One set of older messages discussed in robbing someone.
Other messages discussed vandalism.
There were communications involving guns and bringing a gun to social events.
And testimony at the hearing referenced a message in which Anthony described a violent fantasy involving stabbing someone again that these records That existed before the original trial but were not introduced to the jury the crazy thing of this all is the media has so much to say about Anthony's text messages, right and Obviously if Mac half was attempting to remove him from the tent
It was due to, it had to be due to whatever, you know, situation they had prior to that day.
So maybe they didn't like each other.
Maybe they were into it.
Now they're introducing the ex-girlfriend.
Now we need to figure out, you know, what's her role in this.
And if she had any relations or any type of dealings with the Mac Hav brothers as well.
This is interesting.
This is very interesting.
Especially because they did not initially include these messages in the initial part of the trial We have to get ready to go to break when we come back.
We are going to Switch phones When we went through Carmelo Anthony's records now we're going to go through Austin Metcalf's and there is a document history here races graffiti KKK the n-word Hitler juvenile probation
a bullying allegation involving a black student, previous fights, school suspensions, a gun-related school incident, and material recovered from Austin's cell phone.
Then I'm bringing you to what happened today in court, why Carmelo Anthony originally planned to testify at his murder trial and why he ultimately never took the witness stand.
That's after the break.
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If you are just now joining us, we are covering the Carmelo Anthony case.
the new trial hearing before we went to break we went through information from Anthony's phone and now we are going to the records concerning Austin Metcalf that were also kept outside of the original trial so apparently Anthony
There were text messages found in his phone where he was talking to his ex-girlfriend.
There were pictures of guns and knives and apparently hours before the stabbing.
He stated that he was on the verge, so on and so on.
Now we're going to dig into some of the things that were found inside of Austin's phone shout out to the chat Aaron says luckily it didn't go out he would have had a capital murder charge exactly okay so to your point that's probably why the lawyer said that they wouldn't introduce that inside of the case so that makes that actually makes sense
Um, so records disclosed at this hearing show, Austin Metcalf and his twin brother had previously been involved in a spray and spray painting, racist and anti-Semitic graffiti.
The graffiti included references to the KKK, um, the N word Hitler, and that incident resulted in juvenile consequences.
So additional school records include, uh, disciplinary incidents involving Austin.
Records discussed during the hearing include allegations of bullying, prior fights, suspensions, and confrontations involving other students.
There was also a school incident involving discussion about bringing a firearm to school, and those records were not presented to the murder jury.
So the investigators had Austin cell phone.
Anthony's former trial attorney, Mike Howard, testified about material extracted from that phone.
According to Kira, the defense had information concerning Metcalfe's racist behavior and violence, including material that wasn't put before the jury.
So understand what existed before this trial.
Investigators had Carmelo Anthony's phone.
Investigators had Austin Metcalfe's phone.
They had school records, they had juvenile records, they had prior text messages, they had character evidence involving both teenagers, and the attorneys kept much of the material outside the original trial under their agreement.
Now let's take a look at today.
One of Carmelo Anthony's original trial attorneys, Toby Shook, took the witness in.
And one of the biggest questions was, why didn't Carmelo Anthony testify at his own murder trial?
So Shook testified that Anthony originally planned to testify.
And that matters because Anthony's defense was self-defense.
Taking the stand would have allowed Anthony himself to describe the confrontation and what he says he perceived immediately before he stabbed Metcalf, but the plan changed.
So Anthony's attorneys became concerned about putting him on as a witness, right?
About putting him on that stand and that it could allow prosecutors to introduce damaging character evidence.
that had previously been kept outside of the case.
And they're talking about obviously the text messages that were sent as well as the photos.
And Anthony ultimately did not testify.
Not only that, but his new attorneys are now raising that decision as part of their request for another trial.
So the new trial motion also raises issues
involving courtroom access and how some of this evidence was handled outside the public record.
The new judge, Judge Michael Chitty, is hearing this motion and Anthony's conviction remains in place.
He was sentenced to 35 years.
And as of this afternoon, the court is considering whether to grant the request for a new trial or not.
This is heavy.
This is this is extremely heavy.
Um, it is to Aaron's point, I now understand why they initially wouldn't introduce this information.
But the danger in that is, is, is out now.
It's out now.
He has a new judge as well.
And, um, despite of whether they allow this evidence or not, it's still going to play in the minds of the jurors, right?
There's still, no matter how much they say, Metcalfe had text messages that were anti-Semitic, KKK and bullying and all of this other stuff.
Because he is deceased, they are automatically going to kind of dismiss that and pay attention more to the messages that were found and the things that were found inside of Carmelo's phone.
to the youth out there that's listening.
This is a great example of controlling your emotions because let's say hypothetically, again, I don't know because I am not his lawyer.
I am not involved in Anthony's case.
But let's say hypothetically that he had no intention of interacting with Austin whatsoever, had no premeditation thoughts about anything.
and that he alone was just, as the kids like to say, overstimulated because of the heartbreak or, you know, with him breaking up with his girlfriend.
And during that time, any little thing can set him off.
Any little thing, anybody that attempts to bother him, or let's say that wasn't the case, it wasn't a breakup, he just had a bad day.
We've all had a bad day.
There's been situations where people have bad days and they wake up and they be like, you know what?
You got one more time.
You got one more time.
I'm on the edge.
If you push me, it's going down, right?
That's what it sounds like to me.
It sounds like he has some things going on.
I think what's unfair is that he can't explain those things, right?
And the fact that not only him, but Mac have had
pictures of guns and things of that nature in his phone as well So the difference is here's the difference when we're talking about the things that was found inside of our Carmelo Anthony's cell phone It wasn't specific to anyone other than his girlfriend.
There were apparently some messages directed at her and geared at her based off of them, you know breaking up but
Other than that, he didn't say, hey, I'm going to go to school and stab Austin and lick his blood off this knife.
Or, hey, I'm going to, you know, if he comes to me, I plan to do this or I plan to do that.
He didn't do that.
Austin, on the other hand, KKK using the N word.
That is objective.
So Carmelo, his text messages right around.
No, I don't approve of them, but they are subjective.
They are in a subjective manner.
They don't list anyone's name.
Austin's text messages, however, doesn't list anyone name, but it does because we all know when you use words like KKK and Hitler and the N word, right?
Ninja.
We know exactly who you are talking about.
We know exactly what it is that you're referring to and you're talking about not just.
One person, you are talking about a group of people in general.
Which means that you have a hatred towards a specific ethnicity.
There is no evidence proving that Carmelo had any beef with Austin from these text messages or white people overall for that matter.
But there is evidence in Austin's phone proving that he has an issue with black people.
On top of the fact that he mentioned something about bringing guns to schools and all of that other stuff and Apparently received juvenile consequences for it So as this as this case, you know continues to go on I do hope That they mentioned this I do hope and I and I get it.
I understand that it could hurt Carmelo, but
His lawyer has to figure out a way to explain this His lawyer has to figure out again Just because they left it out of the first trial does not mean that the jurors haven't seen it and that they won't take that into consideration despite of if they're told not to That's like if you're cheating on somebody and they don't know about it and all of a sudden you accidentally send a picture I can't unsee what I said
No matter how much I forgive you, I can't unsee what I I can't unsee what you sent It's still going to replay in my mind and I'm still it's still going to have a determining factor in Whether or not I want to deal with you and that's the same thing That's what's difficult about this situation because it has been leaked and it has been exposed There is no way for the jurors or anybody who's involved in this case to not
read the messages or not think about the messages that were sent.
And again, it's a slippery slope because if you are, as the kids say, overstimulated and you are having a bad day and somebody actually does, you know, come up and do something to make you react, we the people know that's not necessarily premeditation.
That's manifestation.
That is manifestation at its best.
Have you ever been in a situation and you Was at the crib or wherever you was at and you like man, I promise if somebody do this today if somebody tried me if somebody whoop the whoop the whoop and Then all of these attacks are coming.
That's because you have physically set this out of your mouth and Although you can't prove that in court.
We know the real we know that nine times out of ten
It had nothing to do with him.
He was on edge about some stuff.
He was dealing with with his girl at the time That don't give him a right to say the things that he said But evidently there was something that was going on.
So I would then say I wonder if they're going to pull the mental health card, right?
I wonder if they are going to pull the mental health card for Carmelo to say what they do for these white boys.
And the reason why I say that is because when you read these text messages, if they are indeed true, he does have some type of issue mentally or he does have some type of issue with anger.
He has some type of issues when it comes to expressing himself.
So that means that that is probable cause to look into if in fact Carmelo Has some type of mental disability Looking at these text messages as a parent as an educator Most definitely have something going on anger wise not towards anyone else meaning but just like some of the things that was said the if this is true these thoughts
That is an issue.
That means that he needs help mentally.
Doesn't necessarily mean that he premeditated or planned on doing anything to Austin.
Austin, kids, y'all got to keep your hands to yourself.
Don't give nobody no right to stab you or to harm you or anything like that.
But it could have been prevented.
It could have been prevented had he kept his hands to himself, period point blank.
That boy would have kept his hands to himself his hands to himself More than likely this situation wouldn't be what it is and Again, I'm eager to see how the rest of this is going to play out especially because there is a new judge involved and now that these text messages have been leaked You know, this is going to change the trajectory of this entire case
All in all, I just wish the best for Carmelo.
I don't want to see any young black male in a situation like him, especially when they feel like they are on edge and over the edge.
And maybe there was multiple cries out for help and no one was helping him, right?
But whatever it is, my heart goes out to him and his family.
And I do hope and pray that something happens with this case to where he don't have to spend.
the next 35 years in prison.
Um, so again, I'll continue to cover this story.
We got to go to break when we come back.
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Kimora.
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You will be performing tomorrow at Truth Family Fest.
Yes.
Hey, y'all.
So my name is Kiamora, and I just want everybody to know that.
I am full of love.
When we listen to my music, we're going to sing, laugh, dance.
We're going to cry.
We're going to have a good time.
I always tell people that I am just a young woman in her 20s figuring out life.
And that's what you kind of get from my music.
Well, so I grew up in the church.
My family, we are very musically inclined, so I'm actually a pastor's kid.
Okay.
Yeah, I was at church every Sunday, literally in every activity that you could think of in the church.
And so when you were at church, you better be doing something on the usherboard, you singing.
And so my mom, she's a singer, my whole family sings.
So I think...
I think really, with my family, they just really...
shaped to my sound too.
You know, being in the church, you gotta learn, you learn about harmonies and all that type
of
stuff.
And then also Milwaukee culture, we have our own sound as well.
And so all the artists that I know in Milwaukee are really cool and doing really cool things.
So I'm just
happy to be a part of that, you know?
Absolutely.
When did you realize singing was something that you wanted to take seriously?
Well, firstly, I just can't stop singing.
Yes, I was the kid at home where my mama is really telling me to be quiet.
Like, girl, go to bed.
I'm like, wait a minute.
I just got one more song and we wait a minute.
But I knew that I wanted to take it serious when I realized I was doing shows and I was able to speak to people and I was actually...
you know captivating the audience and people were actually interested in what I was doing and I'm like okay this is my passion um and I can do it without getting paid
but
you know now that I can't get paid from I'm like hey now
I love it yeah
yeah pretty much all of it um
I would say, except for Scammer Love, that I was just the artist that I was working with.
We kind of just wrote it like a spin-off
of
T-Pain.
But pretty much all of it.
Like I said, it's just me talking about my life, me becoming a woman in my
20s.
I'm a mom.
I'm in college.
I'm experiencing love, break-ups, heartbreak,
all that
type of stuff.
friends, you know, losing friends.
So, you know,
So I chose the introduction because really it was just a collection of songs and I kind of wanted to introduce to people.
I wrote those songs between 17 to like 19, 18.
And so I just decided that I'm like, okay, this is my way of introducing myself to people.
So the project is, it turned two on July 10th.
And so I released it July 10th, 2024.
And so I feel like it still fits and it is very relevant today to where I am in my life as well, because I talk about like heartbreak.
you know, being a confident, fine little thing, having standards, all of those are still relevant to, you know, where you are or where you can be in your life.
Like if you haven't had standards and somebody not treating you right, you tell them, hey, go somewhere else, you know what I'm saying?
You can't treat me like that.
Those are my standards.
Finally free if you're going through a breakup and you just want to...
Kind of stand on business and say this is where I am in my life and I want to grow.
Yeah, I'm finally free of all the stuff, you know And then final thing that's my favorite song It's just a confidence booster.
I listen to that song every day.
Yeah, I wrote it for You know myself to help me feel more confident.
Yeah And now I've noticed that more women are listening to that song and they tell me how confident that it makes them feel so yeah, yeah
So it sounds like your music has grown over the years as you've grown.
I think it's very intriguing and very needed, necessary for young black women in their 20s to kind of produce this type of music.
I used to do music.
And I always say, I never want to go back to my 20s.
The 20s is like difficult because you're still trying to figure out who you are.
It could be confusing.
Yeah, it is.
And you have so many different things.
You want to do so many people.
You're around.
You're trying to figure it out.
And it's a lot.
How do you, what is your process like creating?
How do you take a real life situation and put it into your music to reflect that?
Honestly, I have to sit on it
little bit.
If something is really bothering me, I have to sit on it, reflect on it, be able to write about how I feel.
Sometimes I'll talk to my closest friends.
Sometimes I'll talk to my family.
It really depends on the situation.
But majority of the time, the creative process is me listening to a beat.
Or if I just, I'm driving or I'm in a shower and I get a melody in my head, I'm like, hold on, wait.
always have my voice memo just ready to go.
Cause sometimes you just get the melody and I just hurry up and click record and I, you know, but yeah, I definitely feel you on what you were talking about with the 20s and stuff.
Cause sometimes I tell my mom, I'm like, mama, what is wrong with me?
She's like, girl, nothing is wrong with you.
You are okay.
You are doing well.
I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm so confused.
Yeah.
But it is that the 20s.
It's a look at
It is, especially if you're a mom.
It's a lot.
But you know, half fun, half fun with everything you're doing enjoyed.
you know, enjoy motherhood, enjoy expressing yourself as well.
So when we think about Milwaukee, we know there's a lot of rappers that's coming out, right?
And it seemed like the R&B is starting to rise up a little bit more.
What do you think R&B artists need more of in order to get the national attention similar to the hip hop artists here?
Honestly, I would just say be yourself and be consistent.
Like a lot of the bookings that I get,
It's just for me being consistent and being in the right rooms and, you know, being professional, showing up professionally and literally just being consistent and being authentic.
I get most of my fan base from being myself.
My fan base know I'm goofy.
We gonna talk.
I talk to them.
I'm like, y'all, what y'all doing today?
And
they be just writing back to me.
But I would just say literally being authentic, staying consistent, staying professional.
um and creating your brand knowing who you want to be.
Um I feel like my favorite thing is the whole creative process of like a song it's so interesting to see how
when I'm in, you know, like writing and I'm doing those voicemails and I, you know, scratching off words and stuff.
And then I go into the studio and then, you know, the layers and the harmonies
and
stacks and all that.
And then you literally have a song.
It's like, literally, it's like if you paint it or something, sometimes you'll draw it and you paint it and you leave it and, you know, add some color, kind of fade it out or, you know, it's, it's literally a whole.
process.
I enjoy it.
That's my whole favorite process.
And then performing, interacting with my supporters.
So yeah.
I have one son.
His name is Nasir.
Hey Nasir.
He's three.
Oh my goodness.
He is a ball of energy.
so smart.
I love him.
I love motherhood.
How do you balance it with chasing your dreams?
Happy
Happy Fran, but...
You know, the crazy part is I have a really, really great team.
Yes.
And so they really work with me.
Like, even if I had to take him to a video shoot, they are so
leaning it.
Like, yes, my
friends were like, OK, come on, Nasir.
We finna do this while your mama working it in.
Nasir, like, my mama singing today?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, he be like, uh-uh, he be telling them right.
Uh-uh, my mama be singing.
And so, yeah, my friends are very, very supportive.
My family is very supportive.
I tell my mom.
And I was like, hey, mom, I got a couple of shows this weekend.
be here.
And she's like, OK, let me know.
You need to let me know in advance because
stuff too now.
But absolutely.
So I just, I pray and I keep die first, too.
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We have a special guest in the building.
Kim or is here and she is going to perform at Truth Family Fest tomorrow.
So tomorrow you are hitting the stage.
What can people
expect from your performance?
So tomorrow y'all can expect to dance.
We're gonna live.
We're gonna talk about standards.
We're gonna talk about having confidence.
And we're gonna talk about how we didn't came up on advance.
So yeah, we're gonna have a good time.
I always say we're gonna have a good R&B time and yeah y'all we're gonna have a great time.
I would say maybe I didn't came up.
OK, yeah.
thing.
Like it.
I know that's right.
No, but for real, like, that's what I'm talking about, when you have to write music from a real place.
That song was really a manifestation for me because literally I wrote that song probably when I had...
Maybe ten dollars in my account
for
real for real when I went to the studio I had ten dollars in my account and I was like look I'm coming up
I
don't know when but I'm gonna come up and so yeah really just Even the process of coming up though for real you have to be disciplined you have to keep focused so you don't lose sight of the goal and so
That song really, really helps me.
I listen to that song every day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, they have changed.
And the crazy part is, so I wrote that song when I was 17.
I started writing the song when I was 17.
And then when I finally finished it, I believe I was 20, when I finished it in 21, when it was released, I think.
And yeah, I just, you know what I'm saying?
I want to be treated right.
Yes.
You know, I don't feel like you should settle.
There's no reason for us to be together if you think that I should settle.
Really just to be happy.
Like to be happy.
To be at peace.
And to be able to do what I love.
Make sure my son is happy.
Make sure that he is experiencing a happy mom.
Yes, come on.
And yeah, that I'm able to pour out.
You know my happiness into others, but so you know success is not always Monetary or I hope I'm saying that word right.
Oh, don't let me embarrass myself
okay, that's the word but yeah, so it's not always like about money and stuff so as long as I'm happy and I'm at peace and I'm doing what I love I feel like that's a success
Absolutely.
go through
Um, honestly, I just at first it was it was a little hard, you know, because when you grow up in a church, they want you to
do one genre, and as Christian, you know, they want you to be a gospel artist.
And I just kind of, I told my family like, hey, God gave me this gift to write.
I
am a writer at the end of the day.
I
can write all
genres of music.
And so it would be wrong for me to not use what God
has given
me.
And so, and also, even though my family aren't, you know, we come from the church, I always make sure that I'm respectful.
My grandfather told me to never do things that compromise my morals and my values.
And so the things that they instilled in me, you know, from the church, I still carry those values.
And if I'm ever in a situation, especially, you know, in the music industry, it
can
be.
I know it.
You know
what I'm saying?
You know.
And so I just kind of...
If it's something that I don't want to do, I don't do it.
That's right.
If it's something that is compromising my morals, I don't do it.
That's right.
If it's money on the table and I know that I'm not comfortable, I don't do
it.
Yes.
There's always going to be a bigger bag.
And I don't, I just, I make sure I keep God first.
That's
So I think what separates me from every R&B artist would be my authenticity.
Like I believe in staying authentic and I have been working really, really hard to build my brand and knowing who I am.
Like a lot of times I feel like when artists sign,
The label kind of tells them who they are because they're kind of figuring out who they are when they get signed.
And so it's easy for them to be like, okay, we want you to be this.
Right.
And it's like... A builder bear.
Yeah.
And so, granted, I know it's some tweaks and stuff that can be made, but I have a good overall view of who I am and who I want to be and how I want to present myself to the world.
So, yeah, just being authentic and...
Being real, I never want to change that part about myself.
Oh, it really means the world.
Like, it really, really means the world.
And because I have a son, I always try to make sure that I am presenting myself in a respectable manner and just like putting my best foot forward.
And so I was really honored
when I
got that invite too, because that mean I'm doing something right.
That mean I'm
not like when you are, you know, booked me and seeing me, y'all are like, OK, this is somebody
that
is able to represent.
and be in front of kids and be able to perform because sometimes you have artists who are great artists who can.
And so that means that I'm doing something right because my music is able to live in spaces where the kids be.
Absolutely.
Yeah,
everybody.
is
So currently I am working on something for Christmas.
I think that's just a cool market to get into, just Christmas music.
And so I'll be working on something for Christmas, excuse me.
And then just behind the scenes, just working on another project.
I don't know when that's gonna come out.
It's okay.
You know, I just like to take my time, but Christmas for sure.
And then...
Yeah, I'm just thinking about maybe doing like songwriting classes people are interested and I don't know
something for Christmas.
That's what I know
I was a
mom too when I was in my 20s So I know the balance the difficulty with the balance, but also having the support system But I just it was on my heart to give this advice to you To never stop, right?
Don't don't limit yourself.
There's no limit, but also make sure that you pay attention to
who you have around you, because a lot of people are, they see, they will see the light in you, right?
And assume that you don't see the light.
And then they come around and, you know, they could try to deal.
Exactly, right?
Don't ever, don't ever stop being you.
And if you do get into the industry, have a deal that's still going to allow you to be yourself.
So where you don't have to conform.
Yes.
Thank you for that.
Oh my goodness.
Yes, a real model.
Yeah.
That's a good way to put
outs?
Sure, yes.
I have like three, period.
Shout out to my mama.
Period.
Hey mama.
Shout out to my friend, Sway.
Shout out to my music administrator, Ishell.
And yes.
Ishell.
Period.
Ishell White, the greatest administrator on this side of heaven.
Yes.
Absolutely.
And yeah, shout out to everybody who be supporting me.
And yeah, shout out to God, period.
Come
without...
God,
right.
Um, so y'all can find me on Instagram at Kiermore Music.
That is K-I-A-M-O-R-A music underscore Facebook, um, Kiera Stevenson and then Kiermore on the side, then TikTok, Kiermore Music.
And yeah, that's pretty much it.
Thank you.
We look forward to seeing you perform tomorrow.
Again, if you guys are free, please stop down at Riverside University tomorrow from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
for Truth Family Fest.
We'll have Kim or their Ray Nitty will be there as well as Emmett James, Performances, Vendors, Resources, all of the above.
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I would say beautiful, but it's raining up a storm, raining cats and dogs outside right now.
It's not a beautiful sight, not a beautiful day.
I'm over it.
What's the wire Milwaukee?
You have officially been tapped in to the Friday kickback with your girl Jazz Tyler.
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We have a lot to talk about today got a lot to talk about a lot to catch up on It's Friday before we get into our national cases today We're starting right here at home because there are three Milwaukee stories that you have to know about and we're gonna move through this Just like any other Friday news rundown first and foremost another person has
died while in custody at the Milwaukee County jail.
Then two men have now been sentenced in the killing of a 33 year old Corey Fritz, a case prosecutors described as a drug deal that was actually a setup for a robbery.
And then we are following the money.
The money because Milwaukee's new five year financial forecast says that the city could be facing a $52.5 million deficit next year.
And 104.5 million annual gap by 2031.
Talking police, fire department, public works, city services, the sales tax was supposed to help Milwaukee's financial situation.
So how are we looking at?
another hundred million dollar hold.
Make and make sense.
The math ain't maffin.
Let's start with Tuesday.
So a 45 year old man died Tuesday morning while in custody at the Milwaukee County Jail.
This has happened numerous of times.
His name has not been publicly released in the reporting I'm using.
However, based off of social media, he seemed to be very known, especially in the battle rap world, very respected, according to Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office deputies picked the man up from the West Alice Police Department for 25 Tuesday morning.
He was being held on Milwaukee County Sheriff's
Office warrants and according to Fox Fox six news the booking charges included operating while revoked second offense operating while intoxicated Operating with prohibited alcohol concentration and ignition interlock device tampering imagine going to jail for that and not making it home all because you were intoxicated while driving and it had nothing to do with
Um, you being hurt with the vehicle or under the influence, but rather because you died while in custody.
Um, and this is where the timeline becomes important because according to the sheriff's office, during the booking, nursing staff at well path, uh, the private company contracted to provide healthcare inside of the county jail, uh, initially medically cleared this man.
A secondary medical screening was still pending.
So.
I want you to keep that in mind and at approximately 425 in the morning deputies picked him up.
He gets to the Milwaukee County jail.
He goes through the initial medical screening.
He is medically cleared, pending the secondary screening.
So at 830 AM, well shortly before 830 AM,
The man told gel staff that he had vomited and wasn't feeling well and the well path nurses evaluated him again.
And this time, according to the sheriff's office, the medical staff determined that he needed to go to the hospital for additional evaluation.
So they ended up calling the ambulance and bringing them in and two deputies were preparing to escort him to the hospital.
But before he could be transported, um, he experienced a medical emergency.
So his he stopped breathing.
He didn't have a pause out of nowhere in the ambulance crew and Milwaukee fire department first responders attempted a life-saving measures Obviously, they were unable to revive him and he was pronounced dead at 9 30 Tuesday morning.
So From the time deputies picked him up in West Alice at 4 25 to the time he was pronounced dead at 9 30.
We are talking about five
hours.
Who is investigating?
The Waukesha County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office is reviewing the cause of death.
And as of the latest reporting, the cause of death had not been publicly established.
So I'm not going to tell you what killed this man because that hasn't been determined publicly, right?
And those are facts.
But this isn't the first death.
in custody debt.
Now, here's why Milwaukee neighborhood news service went deeper into this story.
According to NNS, this is at least the 10th death of a person in custody and Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office custody to be exact since June of 2022.
Six of those deaths occurred during a 14 month period covering 2023.
I'm sorry, 2022 in 2000.
23 and then three more occurred in 2025 and now we have this death that just happened August of this year so again according to NNS there has been at least 10 people considered deceased while in custody of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office since June of 2022.
There's another piece
Here's another piece of story.
An independent audit completed in 2024 identified issues involving several areas inside of the jail and those issues included mental health services, suicide prevention, and staffing.
Now, one advocate who recently toured the jail told NNS that he had seen improvements compared with the conditions several years ago.
That's important to include too, but this latest death is bringing the issue back to the public conversation.
And the office of Milwaukee County Executive David Crawley responded to NNS.
The county executive office said the cause of death remains under review by the medical examiner's office.
But the office said, this particular incident does not raise concerns about medical care at the jail and express confidence that everything possible was done for this man again.
That is the position of the county executive's office.
The independent investigation and medical examiner review are ongoing.
The issue with this here is,
If there was a need for him to have a second opinion, a second medical opinion while in custody, then that means that something was wrong initially.
That means that the first time they did the review, they then something was missed.
Something had to be missed because there's no way possible that by the time it's time for him to go to the ambulance and from the time when he's seen the nurse the second time that he dies.
They missed a step.
So to say that it doesn't raise any red flags is very dismissive, right?
And obviously if I was related to him or, you know, his spouse, I would request an investigation, especially given the track record of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office.
If they've had 10 people considered deceased within the past, what, six years, five years, four years?
Four years.
10 deaths within the past four years that is absolutely something to look into Shout out to the chat Felix said I knew they were gonna be short with the money They got for the budget because they got some money but not nearly enough thank the Republicans in Madison terribly and they say They back the police.
He is talking about the deficit and we're going to talk about that as well Felix but
I wanna send a huge condolences to this gentleman's family.
This is not only sad, but again, it can come off as dismissive, right?
If you say that he's seen a nurse and they said nothing was wrong and then he just threw up out of nowhere and y'all take him to another nurse and by the time y'all call the ambulance, he's dead, then yes, something was missed.
Or they just didn't care.
And let's be clear.
We know that that things happens.
You know, we understand that.
But at the end of the day, once they are inside of the custody of the sheriff's department, it is their responsibility to make sure that they are eating, to make sure that they are well taken care of mentally, physically, emotionally, all of the above, not emotionally, but mentally, physically, right?
So the fact that, again, this has happened raises questions.
The fact that 10 people have been considered deceased within the past four years raised another question.
And I don't think that this is something that we should look over.
Apparently something is wrong.
Something is happening.
Something is happening when it comes to the Sheriff's Office and in police custody.
But again, this is nothing new.
It's not just the Sheriff's Office.
This is Milwaukee.
This is the state of Wisconsin period.
We've had so many in custody.
in custody deaths over a decade now, you know, all the way going back to the 70s.
So again, Semacondolas is to this gentleman's family and pray that they do seek some type of justice if it is necessary.
We are going to take a break right here.
But when we come back, I'm taking you into a Milwaukee murder case that reached sentencing yesterday at 33 year old Appleton man named Corey Fritz came to Milwaukee for what he believed was what
was believed to be a drug transaction.
Prosecutors say it wasn't a really a drug deal.
It was a setup.
They say two men planned to rob him.
A struggle happened.
A gun went off.
Fritz was shot in the head and prosecutors say one of the men later told somebody Corey had simply hit his head on the mailbox.
One defendant pleaded guilty.
The other took his case to a jury.
That jury needed only about 25 minutes to convict him.
Yesterday, both men learned their sentences, and after that, Milwaukee has another problem.
And we're following the $104.5 million deficit.
We got to go to break.
Let's talk about this when we come back as your girl, Jazz Tyler, one on one, seven of truth.
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Today we are doing news first before the break.
We covered Tuesday's death inside of the Milwaukee County Jail and now we are moving to a case that reached sentencing yesterday and the victim was Corey Fritz.
He was a 33 year old man from Appleton.
The killing happened in March of 2025, and according to prosecutors, what Corey believed was going to be a drug transaction was actually a plan to rob him.
So how was this meeting arranged?
According to prosecutors and the criminal complaint, Gregory Hamilton and Travis Cooper were involved in setting up the transaction.
The deal involved marijuana products, specifically THC edibles.
Prosecutor said Hamilton arranged for Fritz to meet him, but according to the state's case, the intention was to rob Fritz.
The meeting happened around 43rd in Good Hope on Milwaukee's northwest side.
And also, according to the criminal complaint, Cooper later told a witness that he and Hamilton planned to set up the drug deal and rob Fritz.
During the attempted robbery, prosecutor says Fritz fought back.
Cooper was accused of striking Fritz in the head with the gun.
According to the account contained in the complaint, the firearm discharged during the confrontation.
Fritz was shot in the head.
He was transported to Freightard Hospital where he died on March 3, 2025.
Now, here's another detailed prosecutor's presented.
According to reporting on the trial, Hamilton later told a neighbor that Fritz had hit his head on a mailbox.
I'm gonna say that again.
He stated that Fritz had hit his head on a mailbox.
Prosecutor said the actual injury was a gunshot wound.
Both Hamilton and Cooper were ultimately charged in connection with Fritz.
That is the dumbest ish I've ever heard.
Do you not think that the medical examiner's office won't be able to tell that it's a bullet wound?
Come on like it's like world dumbest criminal Travis Cooper is 43 He did not take his case to trial in January Cooper pleaded guilty to felony murder So by the time Gregory Hamilton went before a jury this month Cooper's case had already resulted in a guilty plea Mr. Hamilton is 45 He was charged with the felony murder armed robbery
as party to a crime.
His trial began last week.
And on Thursday, August 13th, the fourth day of the trial, the case went into the jury and the jury deliberated for approximately 25 minutes and returned a guilty verdict.
Then yesterday, both men were sentenced to prison.
So the Corey Fritz case has now moved from investigation to charges to a guilty plea for one defendant, a jury conviction for the other and a sentencing for both.
Now I want to take, I want to make a hard turn here because Milwaukee News can't only be about crime.
So we got to pivot.
There's another story that could affect practically everybody that is listening to me right now, whether you ever step a foot inside a courtroom or a jail or not, because we are talking about city services.
Y'all know we all be riding down Burlai and Center and Lisbon.
All those potholes.
So we're talking about the streets, police, fire, public works in our, not yours, our tax dollars.
Milwaukee's Comptroller just released the city's new five year financial forecast.
And the number at the end of the forecast is 104.5 million dollars.
They're saying Milwaukee has a budget problem.
Milwaukee City Comptroller office released a new five-year financial forecast Wednesday and according to that forecast the city of Milwaukee is projected to face 52.5 million structural deficit in 2027 that's next year it's already August we're going into September that's not a long way that's not far away at all so let me explain what this deficit is in regular language
It doesn't simply mean that the city has one bad bill next year.
It means projected ongoing expenses are exceeding projected ongoing revenue and According to the forecast that gap doesn't get any smaller.
It gets bigger So apparently by 2031 the Comptroller projects the annual structural the deficit could reach 104.5 million dollars
And Fox six reports that will be equivalent to about 5% of Milwaukee's current budget, right?
Didn't we just get a sales tax?
Somebody I tell me if I'm lying, if I'm not mistaken, we just got a sales tax and I already know what some of y'all are thinking, right?
Exactly what I just said.
We just got a sales tax.
Milwaukee implemented a 2% city sale tax in 2024 and the comptroller says Milwaukee's reserve fund and other savings accounts are currently in good condition.
Yet this five-year forecast still shows a growing structural deficit.
So why?
One issue with state law, the same legislation that allowed Milwaukee to implement the 2% sales tax also imposed requirements involving police and fire staffing.
And those happen to be Milwaukee's two largest departments.
So the Comptroller's office told Fox Six that those are departments the city essentially does not have the availability to the ability, I'm sorry, to shrink under those requirements.
In fact, staffing in those areas have to grow.
So I want y'all to think about that math.
You are projecting a deficit.
One response to a deficit would normally be to cut the spending.
That's obvious.
But two of your biggest departments aren't available for the type of reductions that you may ordinarily consider.
That puts additional pressure on everybody else.
So Jazz, what does this mean?
Yes, I'm talking the third person.
What does this mean?
And this is why this isn't just a city hall story.
When the city starts talking about departments reducing budgets, we're talking about services that we actually use.
We're talking about public works.
We're talking about libraries.
We're talking about neighborhood services, administrative departments, infrastructures, programs, staffs, right?
The Comptroller told Fox Six that Milwaukee dozens of departments will likely have to reduce spending, but he also said he doesn't believe cuts alone will close the gap.
A gap is large.
He says, uh, part of the conversation needs to happen in Madison.
Here we go with the blame game because local government finances are heavily affected by state law and state revenue decisions.
So his position is essentially that Milwaukee should tighten his belt where possible and maximize the revenue currently available.
But the actions entirely within Milwaukee's control probably won't be enough to close the projected gap.
Meanwhile.
Our mayor, Chevy Johnson is asking residents for input on city spending priorities.
What do we want Milwaukee to protect?
And where are we willing to see the reductions?
Because those become very different questions when you are talking about a projected 52.5 million deficit next year and potentially 104.5 million by 2031.
The issue that I have here, and I don't have an issue with Chevy whatsoever,
Um, he actually supports a lot of what we have going on with the youth.
However, accountability is accountability.
And one thing's for show, two things for certain.
This isn't necessarily about him.
This is just me speaking in general.
I am sick and tired of the city, the county, the state, whichever organization you choose.
asking for the input of the citizens when it comes to the funding, knowing damn well they've already spent the funding or they already have a plan on how they want to spend it.
And I get it, it looks good, right?
And maybe your intentions is to include the input of the people.
Matter of fact, I'm almost positive that the intentions is to include the citizens, right?
But the reality is,
If what we had to say was that important, we wouldn't have a data center, not just now, but when Walker was in office because we didn't ask for it then.
Crime will be reduced a little bit more.
There will be a lot happening.
And we, the people, have not seen our input taken into consideration.
So now I'm talking to the listeners and I'm talking to taxpayers in the city of Milwaukee.
We keep saying hey, this is what we want and they keep asking what do you want?
But every time we tell them it never happens So we're we're going in a circle We are going we are spinning and running in a circle Don't ask us don't ask me what I want if you're not going to take my advice right if you're not going to there needs to be some type of
evident some type of something put together to where we can go through the years and see how many times we've been asked what it is that we want or to provide input and let's pay attention to what actually happened if our input was provided or not.
Not to mention, now I gotta play advocate.
A lot of people who give input about what the issues is in this city
are speaking in a subjective manner, right?
When we're talking about $104.5 million, we're not talking about just one pothole right there on 30th and center under that bridge.
I don't know what pothole I'm talking about.
We're not just talking about one pothole.
We're talking in an objective manner, which means that you have to actually sit down and think about.
how to spend and utilize these funds, which is also why we put people in office to do that for us.
We should understand it absolutely.
But again, we purposely put people in office, people that we trust so that we can, so that it can get done.
So that's Milwaukee before we even leave home today.
Again, a 45-year-old man dies hours after entering the Milwaukee County Jail.
An outside sheriff's department is now investigating.
Two men have been sentenced in the killing of Corey Fritz after prosecutors said a drug transaction was actually an armed robbery set up.
And Milwaukee's own comptroller is warning that the city could be staring at 104.5 million structural budget deficit by 2031.
But at 430 we are leaving Milwaukee and going back to Mississippi because there are new developments in the Nolan Wales case.
The phone, the proposed joint forensics examination, the state autopsy, the CETO in recording, the Bose GPS, the grand jury, and the timeline investigators are trying to reconstruct from Nolan's final known hours on Horn Island.
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Hey listen before we went to break we spent 30 minutes talking about all of the incidents taking place inside of Wisconsin including the deficit that is projected by 2031 now it's Friday, August 21st, and we are going to going straight into the news
pertaining to Nolan Wells.
So for the next 30 minutes, I'm gonna take some information, give it to you based on the latest developments and the first development is Nolan Wells friends intend to sue Reverend Al Sharpton for defamation.
Now, I'm not a huge Al Sharpton fan.
I mean, I have my own personal opinions about his involvement in the civil rights movement as an informant.
Not just against the mob, but against our people as well.
However, this is insane to me the it reeks entitlement it reeks What do you call it entitlement in?
Yeah entitlement It's another word.
I'm thinking of but I have a brain fart.
So according to knowla.com three friends who were
with Nolan Xavier Wells before he died on Horn Island, planned to sue the Reverend Al Sharpton for defamation.
Their attorneys notified the civil rights activists and Baptist minister in an intent to sue letter filed Friday, but gave him time to retract and delete every false and defamation, defamatory statement about them, including not limited to those specifically identified in the letter.
Mississippi attorney Tyler Cox represents.
the three friends, Warren Hudson, Jax Pilato, and Morgan Seymour, along with high-profile defamation and media law attorney Edward Andrew Pausik.
In the attempt to sue letter, the attorneys alleged that Sharpton defamed the trio during a July 4th interview with TMZ, and in other remarks he made in the aftermath of the 18-year-old student athlete's death.
The claims include alleged
remarks made during the convention for the National Association of Black Journalists and other remarks during a virtual prayer vigil on the National Action Network on August 19th, the day of Nolan's 19th birthday.
During the TMZ interview, Sharpton questioned the circumstances surrounding Wells' death and accused the three friends of potentially wrongdoing.
Sharpton discussed Wells' cell phone, which was retrieved from the friends after they returned from Horn Island without Wells, he said.
The phone's photo and text messages had been erased.
In all of his photos, text messages, everything on the phone had been erased, according to Al Sharpton.
He questioned why Wells was missing without his cell phone and said, there were too many unanswered questions surrounding this case.
One, he's missing.
Without a cell phone to you lie about whether or not you had the cell phone in Nolan's keys and three everything is erased from the cell phone That's too many unanswered questions for us not to say something Is wrong here?
This is what what Sharpton is saying in addition the attorneys pointed to additional remarks from Sharpton including
I was, first of all, stunned at the fact that this young man is going out.
He and three friends, he's black, they're white, and a day later his mother and them start searching for him.
No one comes forward.
And then they find out two days that they claim his body was washed up and that they had given his cell phone and his keys to one of their, one of the three friends saying he didn't want to go back from Horn Island with them.
Have they brought these three men?
And for questioning under oath, this is what Al Sharpton is saying.
The attorneys pointed out those statements and others identified that the three young men he was referring to in his remarks were Hudson, Palado and Seymour.
You falsely accused these three.
This is what their their attorney is saying.
You falsely accused these three completely innocent young men.
of extremely serious wrongdoing that constitutes multiple felonies under Mississippi law, including but not limited to murder, hindering prosecution in the first degree and tempering with physical evidence.
This is what the letter of the three friends, I don't like to call them friends because they were not his friends.
This is the letter of the three boys.
This is what their lawyer is saying.
There can be no doubt that you were intentionally referring to Warren Jackson Morgan as evidence is evidence That you are is evident that you are biased So they're having a lot of back and forth Nolan's supposed or alleged friends lawyer in Al Sharpton are having back and forth about some of the comments that he had made
regarding their involvement in Nolan's death and He's not again.
I'm not an Al Sharpton fan, but Everybody knows that the math is not mad then so Today I just want to deal with what's happened since then right because now we're talking about the cell phone We're talking about the examination the forensics examination.
We're talking about the official autopsy that has been completed, but hasn't been publicly released
We're talking about the CETO call the GPS in the report from the United Cajun Navy's 22 investigation as well so on Monday August 17th Attorneys representing Nolan's family announced that their forensic experts were ready to participate in a joint examination of Nolan's cell phone the family proposed a window beginning August 18th
and they wanted it to end August 21st for that examination.
And according to their attorney, this wasn't a brand new request.
So they had already pitched this request or made this request for the examination dates back in July 15th.
And the proposed process included forensic experts connected to the government and the family with potential FBI participation.
So one of the biggest pieces of evidence in this case remains Nolan's actual device, right?
Now, what could investigators potentially obtain from that device?
Depending on what's preserved on it, they can get the text message, the call logs, photographs, videos, timestamps, application information, location, relation, related information, internet activity, and potentially deleted material that remains recoverable.
And I want you to remember this detail.
Nolan did not have that phone with him when his body was recovered.
The phone had returned back to Horn Island with the people that he went with.
So the device can potentially provide investigators with a digital timeline surrounding the July 4th.
incident and there is another layer to this.
The discussion hasn't only been about when the phone gets examined, there has also been discussions about how it gets examined.
And according to the correspondence from his family, attorneys, issues that needed to be established included the scope of the forensic examination, right?
The chain of custody, the preservation and extracted data.
who gets access to extracted information and how when and when Nolan's phone was returned.
And I was watching a video of one of his so-called friend's mother who stated that she went inside the house asking for Nolan's phone from the gentleman from the boys he was with and stated that it took them 15 minutes to get the phone after they said that it was in the truck.
which probably is the amount of time, that's the amount of time, actually it takes less than that.
But in 15 minutes you can take your phone, especially if it's an iPhone, and erase all the data, all the network settings, all the data, all of the above.
But at the end of the day, why did it take 15 minutes?
If this is true, why did it take 15 minutes for them to obtain his phone and provide it to the other friend's mother?
So,
Moving on from the digital evidence to the medical evidence, the state official autopsy report has been completed.
That report has not been publicly released.
And Nolan's family also commissioned a separate independent autopsy report.
And we have talked about this as well because by the time his body got to Washington, DC, we know that some of his main organs were missing.
And his throat was one of them.
And they needed that in order to dictate if he was choked, strangled, if he drowned, all of the above.
So again, there's a lot that's happening, but I think out of all of it, the most important piece is obtaining Nolan's phone.
But secondly, it is crazy that privilege, I'm trying to tell you, crazy that these young men family would actually...
Try to use reverse psychology by suing Al Sharpton for a deformation and you you talk about privilege at his finest, right?
And baby I listen if they guilty If they are guilty and they're going around attempting to sue someone for deformation I hope it bites them right in they ass I do We got to go to break when we come back.
Let's finish this conversation.
She girl jazz Tyler
You are live and direct officially tapped in with your girl Jazz Tyler on the award winning one on one seven in truth.
Welcome back.
We are following the Nolan Wales investigation before break.
We went through the newest developments, including the fact that his supposedly friends.
are filing a lawsuit of defamation against Al Sharpton, which is very interesting.
And not only is it interesting, but it wreaks privilege to me.
It wreaks privilege.
Let's jump into this GPS.
Mississippi Department of Marine Resources record shows that an officer received permission to examine the Garmin GPS aboard the boat Nolan traveled on.
The GPS showed track lines placing that vessel at the northwest tip of Horn Island.
That location information was then used by authorities as they worked to establish the search area.
That's one digital record.
Now add another part of the timeline.
So, if you've been on social media, you know about this tow car.
At approximately four o'clock on July 4th, the car was made to C-Tow from the boat.
C-Tow is a private marine tow and service.
The caller reported that the boat was taken on water and requested assistance.
Now, that recording has since been released publicly, and Nolan's family attorneys have retained experts to
Analyze that recorded so now we have another time step approximately four o'clock The boat trouble is being reported a call for assistance is made and experts retained by Nolan's family are examining the audio now Let's fast forward to 5 54 p.m.
At 5 54 p.m.
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office Establish a command post at the Lake Mars boat launch
Multiple agencies became involved in the search.
We're talking about the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, the Coast Guard National Park Service, the Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi Department of Wildfire.
There's about 12 different entities who all participated in this search.
And later on that night at 9.52, the MDMR captain emailed the Coast Guard, requesting synthetic radar information coordinates connected to that request were based on the GPS information associated with the originating vessel.
So when we talk about reconstructing Nolan's final final hours, we are not only talking about people's memories, we are talking about the potential digital records, the boat.
the GPS, the both GPS, the radar, the phone records, photographs, videos, et cetera.
And it is extremely difficult to conclude this timeline if everything on his phone was erased.
Now, what's interesting is I wonder if they are going to attempt to get fingerprints from Nolan's phone.
And the reason why I say that is because think about how often you let somebody use your phone.
We are in a world today where everybody got a cell phone, right?
Back in the day, you could probably use a house phone or a pay phone or if somebody didn't have a phone.
But how often are you asked, hey, can I see your phone right quick?
And the reason why I'm bringing that up is because obviously they had his phone.
You know when they left, but if they're able to obtain fingerprints from this phone I'm interested in seeing how many people actually had His phone right during this process remember they had it not only when they left the island But during the 15 minutes when his other friends mom requested it as well
Now let's move on to August 6th, the United Cajun Navy released a 22 page report containing information the organization gathered concerning the search and events surrounding Horn Island.
That document includes photos, screenshots from videos, GPS coordinates, and social media statements submitted to the organization.
The United Cajun Navy Vice President Brian said the organization received received some of that information from people claiming they were on Horn Island that day, which is interesting, right?
If you've been following this case, you know that there was a lot of controversy around surrounding whether or not other people seen anything.
So the fact that they've been receiving information from people, other people who were on that island makes this more interesting as well.
And this is where the timeline becomes important because investigators can compare what people said happened with digital evidence that has timestamps.
So.
The boat Nolan arrived on ultimately left Horn Island without him.
The people traveling with Nolan have said Nolan remained behind and told them he had another way back.
So investigators have to reconstruct that period, right?
Who saw him last?
At what time?
Were they on the island?
Who was physically near him?
What vessels were still there?
What photographs or videos existed from that period?
And what do their original time step show?
What does the GPS information show?
What does Nolan's phone show?
And what does the witnesses statements show?
Those are factual pieces capable of being compared against one another.
And there's a big difference between a screenshot somebody uploads to Facebook and the original data file.
An original photograph can contain metadata and original video can contain.
metadata.
A vessel GPS can also contain tracks and a phone can contain timestamps.
So the deeper this investigation gets into digital evidence, the more investigators can potentially compare human memory with electronic records, right?
This is unfortunate that this case continues to be dragged on so much to the point where
these young men and their families are so arrogant to the point where they actually had the nerve to sue someone based on defamation.
And the reason why I say that is because the case hasn't even been concluded.
That's what I mean by arrogance and privilege.
The fact that you are willing to take this stance now to me means that a.
You feel like you aren't going to get caught.
It doesn't mean that you're not guilty, not in my opinion.
Obviously, we don't know.
But my personal opinion, I think they have something to do with it.
And the fact that they're able to say, hey, we're going to sue you.
My mom's going to sue you.
My mom, my dad is going to get a lawyer.
We're going to sue you for defamation.
And the case hasn't even been.
The case hasn't even been started.
It hasn't even gone to trial yet.
Which means that they still.
can be ruled as a suspect and potentially be charged.
This is not the sign to me of someone who isn't guilty.
This is the sign of someone who is privileged, someone who has money, someone who has some type of political power in that state, someone who has access to information that obviously the public don't have based off of a potential cover-up.
Right because when you go back and look at these interviews those boys don't seem confident They seem nervous if you pay attention to the hand gestures and how they're moving and scratching head and rubbing their nose when you're talking and how much all of this Plays a part in it, right?
The story is not adding up.
They're telling on their self saying certain things and now all of all of a sudden It's like hey, we got lawyers now.
Yeah
We got a lawyer.
So now we can we go ahead and sue you for a defamation.
And the case hasn't even once a trial yet.
And it's a cold game out here.
It's a cold game.
Peace.
Shout out to the chat.
And it is him said peace and love jazz and black community.
Absolutely peace.
Thank you so much for tapping in.
And again, I know that on Fridays, we typically, you know, it's a kickback.
We have fun.
We have some fun conversations.
But again, there is so much happening.
So much happening when it comes to not just Milwaukee, but this this country, this nation surrounding black men specifically, that I will be it will be a disservice for me not to provide you guys with updates on this information.
Whoo.
So Nolan Wells to his family.
Again, we send our condolences and pray that this young man seeks the justice.
His family continues to seek justice and receive the justice.
Although we know that justice is never truly served because you can never get your loved ones back in the way that the judicial system is built.
It doesn't always work in our favor when we are up against white privilege.
teenage boys and their families.
That is just a harsh, harsh reality.
In a couple of minutes, we are going to go to break and talk about the latest development in the Carmelo Anthony case.
This is, this has taken a major turn.
Before that, I just want to tap a little bit into the murder trial of Tupac Shakur.
I decided not to cover it to his entirety today because looking at the autopsy photos,
Did something to me and I think anybody with a heart it did something to but what was interesting in the testimony Today and yesterday was that apparently and again, we don't know if this is sure is if this is sure or not, but apparently the Wayne Keefe Davis Was friends or associates with sug night Right before death row
was created and that he was a major drug operator and then should end up taking over these projects that he was dealing out of and then should end up receiving money from Harry O as well as Keefe D to start death row records.
Talk about an interest in turn in the event that that is the case.
This is going to.
Shift the the entire murder trial in a different direction.
They also mentioned that They're the same impala that was seen the night that Pock and sugar got shot was the same impala that was seen When Biggie got shot so apparently He was supposed to receive some type of funding from Puffy some type of funding
To assassinate or to murder Tupac and the money never got to him.
But again, the bigger question is Was he really cool with sugar in the beginning and did he invest some type of funding into death row?
This is crazy.
This is crazy.
So if you haven't been watching Tupac's murder trial Make sure you get a chance to tap into that if you do it for no other reason do it for the culture We got to go to break when we come back.
I want to talk about
Carmelo Anthony and the things that's happening in his case.
There's a development from today involving text messages.
And we're going to talk about it.
It should go to Jaz Tyler, one-on-one, seven is true.
live and direct at the American Family Insurance Studio in the heart of downtown Milwaukee.
I would say beautiful, but it's raining up a storm, raining cats and dogs outside right now.
It's not a beautiful sight, not a beautiful day.
I'm over it.
What's the wire Milwaukee?
You have officially been tapped in to the Friday kickback with your girl Jazz Tyler.
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Um, we have a lot to talk about today.
Got a lot to talk about a lot to catch up on is Friday before we get into our national cases today.
We're starting right here at home because there are three Milwaukee stories that you have to know about.
And we're going to move through this just like any other Friday news rundown.
First and foremost, another person has.
Died while in custody at the Milwaukee County jail Then two men have now been sentenced in the killing of 33 year old Corey Fritz a case Prosecutors described as a drug deal that was actually a setup for a robbery and then we are following the money
The money, because Milwaukee's new five-year financial forecast says that the city could be facing a $52.5 million deficit next year.
And 104.5 million annual gap by 2031.
Talking police, fire department, public works, city services, the sales tax was supposed to help Milwaukee's financial situation.
So how are we looking at...
Another hundred million dollar hole.
Make and make sense.
The math ain't maffin.
Let's start with Tuesday.
So a 45 year old man died Tuesday morning while in custody at the Milwaukee County Jail.
This has happened numerous of times.
His name has not been publicly released in the reporting I'm using.
However, based off of social media, he seemed to be very known, especially in the battle rap world, very respected, according to Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office deputies picked the man up from the West Alice Police Department for 25 Tuesday morning.
He was being held on Milwaukee County Sheriff's
Office warrants and according to Fox Fox six news the booking charges included operating while revoked second offense operating while intoxicated Operating with prohibited alcohol concentration and ignition interlock device tampering imagine Going to jail for that and not making it home All because you were intoxicated while driving and it had nothing to do with you being hurt
with the vehicle or under the influence, but rather because you died while in custody.
And this is where the timeline becomes important because according to the sheriff's office, during the booking, nursing staff at Well Path, the private company contracted to provide healthcare inside of the county jail, initially medically cleared this man.
A secondary medical screening was still pending, so.
I want you to keep that in mind and at approximately 425 in the morning deputies picked him up.
He gets to the Milwaukee County jail.
He goes through the initial medical screening.
He is medically cleared, pending the secondary screening.
So at 830 AM, well shortly before 830 AM,
The man told gel staff that he had vomited and wasn't feeling well and the well path nurses evaluated him again.
And this time, according to the sheriff's office, the medical staff determined that he needed to go to the hospital for additional evaluation.
So they ended up calling the ambulance and bringing them in and two deputies were preparing to escort him to the hospital.
But before he could be transported, he experienced a medical emergency.
So his he stopped breathing.
He didn't have a pause out of nowhere in the ambulance crew and Milwaukee fire department first responders attempted a life-saving measures Obviously, they were unable to revive him and he was pronounced dead at 9 30 Tuesday morning.
So From the time deputies picked him up in West Alice at 4 25 to the time he was pronounced dead at 9 30.
We are talking about five
hours.
Who is investigating?
The Waukesha County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office is reviewing the cause of death.
And as of the latest reporting, the cause of death had not been publicly established.
So I'm not going to tell you what killed this man because that hasn't been determined publicly, right?
And those are facts.
But this isn't the first death.
in custody debt.
Now, here's why Milwaukee neighborhood news service went deeper into this story, according to NNS.
This is at least the 10th death of a person in custody and Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office custody to be exact since June of 2022.
Six of those deaths occurred during a 14 month period covering 2023.
I'm sorry, 2022 in 2000.
And then three more occurred in 2025.
And now we have this death that just happened August of this year.
So again, according to NNS, there has been at least 10 people considered deceased while in custody of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office since June of 2022.
There's another piece.
Here's another piece of story.
An independent audit completed in 2024 identified issues involving several areas inside of the jail and those issues included mental health services, suicide prevention, and staffing.
Now one advocate who recently toured the jail told NNS that he had seen improvements compared with the condition several years ago That's important to include too, but this latest death is bringing the issue back to the public conversation and the office of Milwaukee County Executive David Crawley responded to NNS
The county executive office said the cause of death remains under review by the medical examiner's office.
But the office said, this particular incident does not raise concerns about medical care at the jail and express confidence that everything possible was done for this man again.
That is the position of the county executive's office.
The independent investigation and medical examiner review are ongoing.
The issue with this here is,
If there was a need for him to have a second opinion, a second medical opinion while in custody, then that means that something was wrong initially.
That means that the first time they did the review, they then something was missed.
Something had to be missed because there's no way possible that by the time it's time for him to go to the ambulance and from the time when he's seen the nurse the second time that he dies.
They missed a step, so to say that it doesn't raise any red flags is very dismissive, right?
And obviously, if I was related to him or his spouse, I would request an investigation, especially given the track record of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office, if they've had 10 people considered deceased within the past, what, six years, five years, four years?
Four years.
10 deaths within the past four years that is absolutely something to look into Shout out to the chat Felix said I knew they were gonna be short with the money They got for the budget because they got some money, but not nearly enough thank the Republicans in Madison terribly and they say They back the police.
He is talking about the deficit and we're going to talk about that as well Felix but
I want to send a huge condolences to this gentleman's family.
Um, this is not only sad, but, um, again, it can be, it can come off as dismissive, right?
If you say that he's seen a nurse and they said nothing was wrong and then he just threw up out of nowhere and y'all take him to another nurse and by the time y'all call the ambulance, he's dead.
Then yes, something was missed.
Or they just didn't care.
And let's be clear.
We know that that things happens.
You know, we understand that.
But at the end of the day, once they are inside of the custody of the sheriff's department, it is their responsibility to make sure that they are eating, to make sure that they are well taken care of mentally, physically, emotionally, all of the above, not emotionally, but mentally, physically, right?
So the fact that, again, this has happened.
raises questions.
The fact that 10 people have been considered deceased within the past four years raised another question.
And I don't think that this is something that we should look over.
Apparently something is wrong.
Something is happening.
Something is happening when it comes to the sheriff's office and in police custody.
But again, this is nothing new.
It's not just the sheriff's office.
This is Milwaukee.
This is the state of Wisconsin period.
We've had so many in custody deaths over a decade now, you know, all the way going back to the 70s.
So again, Sima Condola says to.
this gentleman's family and pray that they do seek some type of justice if it is necessary.
We are going to take a break right here.
But when we come back, I'm taking you into a Milwaukee murder case that reached sentencing yesterday at 33 year old Appleton man named Coy Fritz came to Milwaukee for what he believed was what was believed to be a drug transaction.
Prosecutors say it wasn't a really a drug deal.
It was a setup.
They say two men plan to rob him.
A struggle happened.
A gun went off.
Fritz was shot in the head and prosecutors say one of the men later told somebody Corey has simply hit his head on the mailbox One defendant pleaded guilty the other took his case to a jury that jury needed only about 25 minutes to convict him Yesterday both men learned their sentences and after that Milwaukee has another problem and we're following the 104.5 million dollar deficit We got to go to break.
Let's talk about this when we come back as you grow jazz Tyler one on one setting the truth
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Today we are doing news first before the break.
We covered Tuesday's death inside of the Milwaukee County Jail and now we are moving to a case that reached sentencing yesterday and the victim was Corey Fritz.
He was a 33 year old man from Appleton.
The killing happened in March of 2025, and according to prosecutors, what Corey believed was going to be a drug transaction was actually a plan to rob him.
So how was this meeting arranged?
According to prosecutors and the criminal complaint, Gregory Hamilton and Travis Cooper were involved in setting up the transaction.
The deal involved marijuana products, specifically THC edibles.
Prosecutor said Hamilton arranged for Fritz to meet him, but according to the state's case, the intention was to rob Fritz.
The meeting happened around 43rd in Good Hope on Milwaukee's northwest side.
And also, according to the criminal complaint, Cooper later told a witness that he and Hamilton planned to set up the drug deal and rob Fritz.
During the attempted robbery, prosecutor says Fritz fought back.
Cooper was accused of striking Fritz in the head with the gun.
According to the account contained in the complaint, the firearm discharged during the confrontation.
Fritz was shot in the head.
He was transported to Freightard Hospital where he died on March 3, 2025.
Now here's another detailed prosecutor's presented according to uh reporting on the trial Hamilton later told a neighbor that Fritz had hit his head on a mailbox Say that again He stated that Fritz had hit his head on a mailbox Prosecutor said the actual injury was a gunshot wound Both Hamilton and Cooper were ultimately charged in connection with Fritz death.
That is the dumbest ish I've ever heard like
Do you not think that the medical examiner's office won't be able to tell that it's a bullet wound?
Come on like it's like world dumbest criminal Travis Cooper is 43 He did not take his case to trial in January Cooper pleaded guilty to felony murder So by the time Gregory Hamilton went before a jury this month Cooper's case had already resulted in a guilty plea Mr. Hamilton is 45 He was charged with the felony murder armed robbery
as party to a crime.
His trial began last week.
And on Thursday, August 13th, the fourth day of the trial, the case went into the jury and the jury deliberated for approximately 25 minutes and returned a guilty verdict.
Then yesterday, both men were sentenced to prison.
So the Corey Fritz case has now moved from investigation to charges to a guilty plea for one defendant, a jury conviction for the other and a sentencing for both.
Um, now I want to take, I want to make a hard turn here because Milwaukee News can't only be about crime.
So we got to pivot.
There's another story that could affect practically everybody that is listening to me right now.
Whether you ever step a foot inside a courtroom or a jail or not, because we are talking about city services.
Y'all know we all be riding down burly and center and Lisbon.
All those potholes.
So we're talking about the streets, police, fire, public works in our, not yours, our tax dollars.
Milwaukee's Comptroller just released the city's new five year financial forecast.
And the number at the end of the forecast is 104.5 million dollars.
They're saying Milwaukee has a budget problem.
Milwaukee City Comptroller office released a new five-year financial forecast Wednesday and according to that forecast the city of Milwaukee is projected to face 52.5 million structural deficit in 2027 that's next year it's already August we're going into September that's not a long way that's not far away at all so let me explain what this deficit is in regular language
It doesn't simply mean that the city has one bad bill next year.
It means projected ongoing expenses are exceeding projected ongoing revenue and According to the forecast that gap doesn't get any smaller.
It gets bigger So apparently by 2031 the Comptroller projects the annual structural the deficit could reach 104.5 million dollars
And Fox six reports that will be equivalent to about five percent of Milwaukee's current budget, right?
Didn't we just get a sales tax?
Somebody had to tell me if I'm lying.
If I'm not mistaken, we just got a sales tax and I already know what some of y'all are thinking, right?
Exactly what I just said.
We just got a sales tax.
Milwaukee implemented a 2% city sales tax in 2024 and the comptroller says Milwaukee's reserve fund and other savings accounts are currently in good condition.
Yet this five-year forecast still shows a growing structural deficit.
So why?
One issue is state law.
The same legislation that allowed Milwaukee to implement the 2% sales tax also imposed requirements involving police and fire staffing.
And those happen to be Milwaukee's two largest departments.
So the Comptroller's office told Fox Six that those are departments the city essentially does not have the availability to the ability, I'm sorry, to shrink under those requirements.
In fact, staffing in those areas have to grow.
So I want you all to think about that, Matt.
You are projecting a deficit.
One response to a deficit would normally be to cut the spending.
That's obvious.
But two of your biggest departments aren't available for the type of reductions that you may ordinarily consider.
That puts additional pressure on everybody else.
So Jazz, what does this mean?
Yes, I'm talking a third person.
What does this mean?
And this is why this isn't just a city hall story.
When the city starts talking about departments reducing budgets, we're talking about services that we actually use.
We're talking about public works.
We're talking about libraries.
We're talking about neighborhood services, administrative departments, infrastructures, programs, staffs, right?
The Comptroller told Fox Six that Milwaukee dozens of departments will likely have to reduce spending, but he also said he doesn't believe cuts alone will close the gap.
A gap is large.
He says, uh, part of the conversation needs to happen in Madison.
Here we go with the blame game because local government finances are heavily affected by state law and state revenue decisions.
So his position is essentially that Milwaukee should tighten his belt where possible and maximize the revenue currently available.
But the actions entirely within Milwaukee's control probably won't be enough to close the projected gap.
Meanwhile.
Our mayor, Chevy Johnson is asking residents for input on city spending priorities.
What do we want Milwaukee to protect?
And where are we willing to see the reductions?
Because those become very different questions when you are talking about a projected 52.5 million deficit next year and potentially 104.5 million by 2031.
The issue that I have here, and I don't have an issue with Chevy whatsoever,
Um, he actually supports a lot of what we have going on with the youth.
However, accountability is accountability.
And one thing's for show, two things for certain.
This isn't necessarily about him.
This is just me speaking in general.
I am sick and tired of the city, the county, the state, whichever organization you choose.
asking for the input of the citizens when it comes to the funding, knowing damn well they've already spent the funding or they already have a plan on how they want to spend it.
And I get it, it looks good, right?
And maybe your intentions is to include the input of the people.
Matter of fact, I'm almost positive that the intentions is to include the citizens, right?
But the reality is,
If what we had to say was that important, we wouldn't have a data center, not just now, but when Walker was in office because we didn't ask for it then.
Crime will be reduced a little bit more.
There will be a lot happening.
And we, the people have not seen our input taken into consideration.
So now I'm talking to the listeners and I'm talking to taxpayers in the city of Milwaukee.
We keep saying hey, this is what we want and they keep asking what do you want?
But every time we tell them it never happens So we're we're going in a circle We are going we are spinning and running in a circle Don't ask us don't ask me what I want if you're not going to take my advice right if you're not going to there needs to be some type of
evident some type of something put together to where we can go through the years and see how many times we've been asked what it is that we want or to provide input and let's pay attention to what actually happened if our input was provided or not.
Not to mention, now I gotta play advocate.
A lot of people who give input about what the issues is in this city
are speaking in a subjective manner, right?
When we're talking about $104.5 million, we're not talking about just one pothole right there on 30th and center under that bridge.
I don't know what pothole I'm talking about.
We're not just talking about one pothole.
We're talking in an objective manner, which means that you have to actually sit down and think about how to spend and utilize these funds.
Which is also why we put people in office to do that for us.
We should understand it absolutely.
But again, we purposely put people in office, people that we trust so that we can, so that it can get done.
So that's Milwaukee before we even leave home today.
Again, a 45-year-old man dies hours after entering the Milwaukee County Jail.
An outside sheriff's department is now investigating.
Two men have been sentenced in the killing of Corey Fritz after prosecutors said a drug transaction was actually an armed robbery set up.
And Milwaukee's own comptroller is warning that the city could be staring at 104.5 million structural budget deficit by 2031.
But at 430 we are leaving Milwaukee and going back to Mississippi because there are new developments in the Nolan Wales case.
The phone, the proposed joint forensics, examination, the state autopsy, the CETO in recording, the Bose GPS, the grand jury, and the timeline investigators are trying to reconstruct from Nolan's final known hours on Horn Island.
And should girl Jazz Tyler do not touch that dial 1017 to truth.
One-on-one seven and truth that should grow jazz Tyler We are live and direct at the award winner one-on-one seven and truth in the beautiful heart of downtown Milwaukee at the American Family Assurance studio.
Hey listen before we went to break we spent 30 minutes talking about all of the incidents taking place inside of Wisconsin including the deficit that is projected by 2031 now it's Friday, August 21st, and we are going to going straight into the news
pertaining to Nolan Wells.
So for the next 30 minutes, I'm gonna take some information, give it to you based on the latest developments, and the first development is Nolan Wells friends intend to sue Reverend Al Sharpton for defamation.
Now, I'm not a huge Al Sharpton fan.
I mean, I have my own personal opinions about his involvement in the civil rights movement as an informant.
Um, not just against the mob, but against our people as well.
However, this is insane to me.
Um, the, it reeks entitlement.
It reeks.
Um, what do you call it?
Entitlement in.
Yeah.
Entitlement.
It's another word I'm thinking of, but I have a brain fart.
So according to nola.com, uh, three friends who were.
with Nolan Xavier Wells before he died on Horn Island, planned to sue the Reverend Al Sharpton for defamation.
Their attorneys notified the civil rights activists and Baptist minister in an intent to sue letter filed Friday, but gave him time to retract and delete every false and defamation, defamatory statement about them, including not limited to those specifically identified in the letter.
Mississippi attorney Tyler Cox represents.
the three friends, Warren Hudson, Jax Pilato, and Morgan Seymour, along with high-profile defamation and media law attorney Edward Andrew Pausik.
In the attempt to sue letter, the attorneys alleged that Sharpton defamed the trio during a July 4th interview with TMZ, and in other remarks he made in the aftermath of the 18-year-old student athlete's death.
The claims include alleged remarks made during the convention for the National Association of Black Journalists and other remarks during a virtual prayer vigil on the National Action Network on August 19th, the day of Nolan's 19th birthday.
During the TMZ interview, Sharpton questioned the circumstances surrounding Wells' death and accused the three friends of potentially wrongdoing.
Sharpton discussed Wells' cell phone, which was retrieved from the friends after they returned from Horn Island without Wells, he said.
The phone's photo and text messages had been erased.
In all of his photos, text messages, everything on the phone had been erased, according to Al Sharpton.
He questioned why Wells was missing without his cell phone and said, there were too many unanswered questions surrounding this case.
One, he's missing.
Without a cell phone to you lie about whether or not you had the cell phone in Nolan's keys and three everything is erased from the cell phone That's too many unanswered questions for us not to say something Is wrong here?
This is what what Sharpton is saying in addition the attorneys pointed to additional remarks from Sharpton including
I was first of all stunned at the fact that this young man is going out.
He and three friends, he's black, they're white, and a day later his mother and them started searching for him.
No one comes forward and then they find out two days that they claim his body was washed up and that they had given his cell phone and his keys to one of their, one of the three friends saying he didn't want to go back from Horn Island with them.
Have they brought these three men?
And for questioning under oath, this is what Al Sharpton is saying.
The attorneys pointed out those statements and others identified that the three young men he was referring to in his remarks were Hudson, Pallado and Seymour.
You falsely accused these three.
This is what their their attorney is saying.
You falsely accused these three completely innocent young men.
of extremely serious wrongdoing that constitutes multiple felonies under Mississippi law, including but not limited to murder, hindering prosecution in the first degree and tempering with physical evidence.
This is what the letter of the three friends, I don't like to call them friends because they were not his friends.
This is the letter of the three boys.
This is what their lawyer is saying.
There can be no doubt that you were intentionally referring to Warren Jackson Morgan as evidence is evidence That you are is evident that you are biased So they're having a lot of back and forth Nolan's supposed or alleged friends lawyer in Al Sharpton are having back and forth about some of the comments that he had made
regarding their involvement in Nolan's death.
And he's not, again, I'm not an Al Sharpton fan, but everybody knows that the math is not mathin'.
So today I just want to deal with what's happened since then, right?
Because now we're talking about the cell phone, we're talking about the examination, the forensics examination, we're talking about the official autopsy that has been completed but hasn't been publicly released.
We're talking about the CTO call the GPS in the report from the United Cajun Navy's 22 investigation as well So on Monday, August 17th Attorneys representing Nolan's family announced that their forensic experts were ready to participate in a joint examination of Nolan's cell phone the family proposed a window beginning August 18th
and they wanted it to end August 21st for that examination.
And according to their attorney, this wasn't a brand new request.
So they had already pitched this request or made this request for the examination dates back in July 15th.
And the proposed process included forensic experts connected to the government and the family with potential FBI participation.
So, one of the biggest pieces of evidence in this case remains Nolan's actual device, right?
Now, what could investigators potentially obtain from that device?
Depending on what's preserved on it, they can get the text message, the call logs, photographs, videos, timestamps, application information, location relation, related information, internet activity, and potentially deleted material that remains recoverable.
And I want you to remember this detail.
Nolan did not have that phone with him when his body was recovered.
The phone had returned back to Horn Island with the people that he went with.
So the device can potentially provide investigators with a digital timeline surrounding the July 4th incident.
And there is another layer to this.
The discussion hasn't
only been about when the phone gets examined.
There has also been discussions about how it gets examined.
And according to the correspondence from his family, attorneys, issues that needed to be established included the scope of the forensic examination, right?
The chain of custody, the preservation and extracted data who gets access to extracted information and how when and when Nolan phone was returned.
And I was watching a video of one of his so-called friends, mother, who stated that she went inside the house asking for Nolan's phone from the gentleman, from the boys he was with, and stated that it took them 15 minutes to get the phone after they said that it was in the truck.
which probably is the amount of time.
That's the amount of time.
Actually, it takes less than that.
But in 15 minutes, you can take your phone, especially if it's an iPhone, and erase all the data, all the network settings, all the data, all of the above.
But at the end of the day, why did it take 15 minutes?
If this is true, why did it take 15 minutes for them to obtain his phone and provide it to the other friend's mother?
So.
Moving on from the digital evidence to the medical evidence, the state official autopsy report has been completed.
That report has not been publicly released.
And Nolan's family also commissioned a separate independent autopsy report.
And we have talked about this as well because by the time his body got to Washington, DC, we know that some of his main organs were missing.
And his throat was one of them.
And they needed that in order to dictate if he was choked, strangled, if he drowned, all of the above.
So again, there's a lot that's happening, but I think out of all of it, the most important piece is obtaining Nolan's phone.
But secondly, it is crazy that privilege, I'm trying to tell you, crazy that these young men, family would actually...
Try to use reverse psychology by suing Al Sharpton for defamation and you you talk about privilege at his finest, right?
And baby I listen if they guilty If they are guilty and they're going around attempting to sue someone for defamation I hope it bites them right in they ass I do
We gotta go to break when we come back.
Let's finish this conversation with your girl Jazz Tyler.
You are live and direct officially tapped in with your girl Jazz Tyler on the award winning one on one seven in truth.
Um, welcome back.
We are following the Nolan Wales investigation before break.
We went through the newest developments, including the fact that his supposedly friends are, uh, filing a lawsuit of defamation against Al Sharpton, um, which is very interesting and not only is it interesting, but it wreaks privilege to me.
It wreaks privilege.
Um,
Let's jump into this GPS.
Mississippi Department of Marine Resources record shows that an officer received permission to examine the Garmin GPS aboard the boat Nolan traveled on.
The GPS showed track lines placing that vessel at the northwest tip of Horn Island.
That location information was then used by authorities as they worked to establish the search area.
That's one digital record.
Now add another part of the timeline.
So if you've been on social media, you know about this tow car.
At approximately four o'clock on July 4th, the car was made to C-Tow from the boat.
C-Tow is a private marine tow and service.
The caller reported that the boat was taken on water and requested assistance.
Now that recording has since been released publicly and Nolan's family attorneys have retained experts to
Analyze that recorded so now we have another time step approximately four o'clock The boat trouble is being reported a call for assistance is made and experts retained by Nolan's family are examining the audio now let's fast forward to 5 54 p.m at 5 54 p.m The Jackson County Sheriff's Office established a command post at the Lake Mars boat launch
Multiple agencies became involved in the search.
We're talking about the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, the Coast Guard National Park Service, the Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi Department of Wildfire.
There's about 12 different entities who all participated in this search.
And later on that night at 9.52, the MDMR captain emailed the Coast Guard, requesting synthetic radar information coordinates connected to that request were based on the GPS information associated with the originating vessel.
So when we talk about reconstructing Nolan's final final hours, we are not only talking about people's memories, we are talking about the potential digital records, the boat.
the GPS, the both GPS, the radar, the phone records, photographs, videos, et cetera.
And it is extremely difficult to conclude this timeline if everything on his phone was erased.
Now, what's interesting is I wonder if they are going to attempt to get fingerprints from Nolan's phone.
And the reason why I say that is because think about how often you let somebody use your phone.
We are in a world today where everybody got a cell phone, right?
Back in the day, you could probably use a house phone or a pay phone or if somebody didn't have a phone.
But how often are you asked, hey, can I see your phone right quick?
And the reason why I'm bringing that up is because obviously they had his phone.
You know when they left, but if they're able to obtain fingerprints from this phone I'm interested in seeing how many people actually had His phone right during this process remember they had it not only when they left the island But during the 15 minutes when his other friends mom requested it as well
Now let's move on to August 6th, the United Cajun Navy released a 22 page report containing information the organization gathered concerning the search and events surrounding Horn Island.
That document includes photos, screenshots from videos, GPS coordinates and social media statements submitted to the organization.
The United Cajun Navy Vice President Brian said the organization received some of that information from people claiming they were on Horn Island that day, which is interesting, right?
If you've been following this case, you know that there was a lot of controversy surrounding whether or not other people seen anything.
So the fact that they've been receiving information from people, other people who were on that island makes this more interesting as well.
And this is where the timeline becomes important because investigators can compare what people said happened with digital evidence that has timestamps.
The boat Nolan arrived on ultimately left Horn Island without him.
The people traveling with Nolan have said Nolan remained behind and told them he had another way back.
So investigators have to reconstruct that period, right?
Who saw him last?
At what time?
Were they on the island?
Who was physically near him?
What vessels were still there?
What photographs or videos existed from that period?
And what do their original time step show?
What does the GPS information show?
What does Nolan's phone show?
And what does the witnesses statements show?
Those are factual pieces capable of being compared against one another.
And there's a big difference between a screenshot somebody uploads to Facebook and the original data file.
An original photograph can contain metadata and original video can contain.
metadata.
A vessel GPS can also contain tracks and a phone can contain timestamps.
So the deeper this investigation gets into digital evidence, the more investigators can potentially compare human memory with electronic records, right?
This is unfortunate that this case continues to be dragged on so much to the point where
these young men and their families are so arrogant to the point where they actually had the nerve to sue someone based on defamation.
And the reason why I say that is because the case hasn't even been concluded.
That's what I mean by arrogance and privilege.
The fact that you are willing to take this stance now to me means that a.
You feel like you aren't going to get caught.
It doesn't mean that you're not guilty, not in my opinion.
Obviously, we don't know.
But my personal opinion, I think they have something to do with it.
And the fact that they're able to say, hey, we're going to sue you.
My mom's going to sue you.
My mom, my dad is going to get a lawyer.
We're going to sue you for defamation.
And the case hasn't even been.
The case hasn't even been started.
It hasn't even gone to trial yet.
Which means that they still.
can be ruled as a suspect and potentially be charged.
This is not the sign to me of someone who isn't guilty.
This is the sign of someone who is privileged, someone who has money, someone who has some type of political power in that state, someone who has access to information that obviously the public don't have based off of a potential cover-up.
Right because when you go back and look at these interviews those boys don't seem confident They seem nervous if you pay attention to the hand gestures and how they're moving and scratching head and rubbing their nose when you're talking and how much all of this Plays a part in it, right?
The story is not adding up.
They're telling on their self saying certain things and now all of all of a sudden It's like hey, we got lawyers now.
Yeah
We got a lawyer, so now we can, we go ahead and sue you for a defamation.
And the case hasn't even went to trial yet.
Man, it's a cold game out here.
It's a cold game.
Peace, shout out to the chat, Erin, as Helm said, peace and love, jazz and black community, absolutely peace.
Thank you so much for tapping in.
And again, I know that on Fridays, we typically, you know, it's a kickback.
We have fun.
We have some fun conversations.
But again, there is so much happening.
So much happening when it comes to not just Milwaukee, but this this country, this nation surrounding black men specifically, that I will be it will be a disservice for me not to provide you guys with the updates on this information.
Whoo.
So Nolan Wells to his family.
Again, we send our condolences and pray that this young man seeks the justice.
His family continues to seek justice and receive the justice.
Although we know that justice is never truly served because you can never get your loved ones back in the way that the judicial system is built.
It doesn't always work in our favor when we are up against white privilege.
teenage boys and their families.
That is just a harsh, harsh reality.
In a couple of minutes, we are going to go to break and talk about the latest development in the Carmelo Anthony case.
This is, this has taken a major turn.
Before that, I just want to tap a little bit into the murder trial of Tupac Shakur.
I decided not to cover it to his entirety today because looking at the autopsy photos,
Did something to me and I think anybody with a heart it did something to but what was interesting in the testimony Today and yesterday was that apparently and again, we don't know if this is sure is if this is sure or not, but apparently the Wayne Keefe Davis Was friends or associates with sug night Right before death row
was created and that he was a major drug operator and then should end up taking over these projects that he was dealing out of and then should end up receiving money from Harry O as well as Keefe D to start death row records.
Talk about an interest in turn in the event that that is the case.
This is going to.
Shift the the entire murder trial in a different direction.
They also mentioned that They're the same Impala that was seen the night that Pock and sugar got shot was the same Impala that was seen When Biggie got shot so apparently He was supposed to receive some type of funding from Puffy some type of funding
To assassinate or to murder Tupac and the money never got to him.
But again, the bigger question is Was he really cool with sugar in the beginning and did he invest some type of funding into death row?
This is crazy.
This is crazy.
So if you haven't been watching Tupac's murder trial Make sure you get a chance to tap into that if you do it for no other reason do it for the culture We got to go to break when we come back.
I want to talk about
Carmelo Anthony and the things that's happening in his case.
There's a development from today involving text messages.
And we're going to talk about it.
It should go to Jaz Tyler, one-on-one, seven is true.