Protect the Youth

Hope that you girl, Jazz Tyler, we are live and direct at the award-winning 1017, the truth you are officially tapped in.

Happy Friday Milwaukee!

Man, listen, it felt like it took forever to get to Friday.

It has been a super long week.

A lot of things has been happening, both worldly things and spiritually, and we gotta talk about it.

You know, we have to have a conversation about this.

First and foremost, I want to, you know, give my condolences again to Smalls and his family.

Tomorrow is the funeral.

Both Homer and I will be in attendance.

And it's been a very difficult situation.

And I just want to send a shout out to my students.

Man, and everybody who has been supporting me, but today was an extremely difficult day for me at work.

So much to the point where when I walked in, um, the studio, I began, I just started crying.

I couldn't even hold it back.

And before I had my first class, I had to get myself together, but my students still could tell.

And they came and I was like, Miss Jazz, is you okay?

And I kept saying, yeah, I'm good.

Right.

You know, smiling.

Yeah, I'm okay.

And one of my students shout out to Kanye, he said, no, you're not mish-ass.

What's going on?

And I was like, someone that's like my brother passed away in his funeral is tomorrow.

And the first thing he said was, and you still showed up for us.

Thank you.

And that meant so much to me.

That changed my entire mood.

I also received an email from

the school is stating that they had interviewed some of the ambassadors, the student ambassadors yesterday, several of them.

And my name along with two other teachers' name came up multiple times as far as how much we've impacted them.

And this was something that they did on their own.

So again, just getting that, and the fact that I pour into my students and they pour it back into me, it confirms that the work that I'm doing.

is what I'm supposed to be doing, but also that it's okay for you to be vulnerable, right?

It's okay to say that I'm not okay.

Sometimes you have to say it in order to hear it so that you can know what it is that you need to do as far as how to deal with it.

So again, and big shout out to all of my students.

I am going to touch on this briefly as well because first of all I want to apologize to anybody that followed me because yesterday I went off.

I went off on live.

I did and I had to you know go back and kind of take it take it down but the reason why I was so upset was for two reasons one

I know you guys have been seeing the viral post on Facebook and social media from the parent who was talking about the students that were left outside of Howard Fuller High School for three hours, right?

And I was upset because I actually was there during this situation and I tried to

This time we gonna do this right here.

Truth it should grow, Jazz Tyler, we are live and direct.

We have another special guest in the building.

Y'all may know her by Shamar.

I know her as Marmar.

What up Marmar?

What's up

Jazz?

How you feeling?

I'm good.

Listen, I was just talking to Aziz.

I want to tell you, I'm so proud of you, man, for real.

Like, watching the growth, you've been around for a long time.

You've been helping with the lock-ins with Tay Day, with all of the stuff, and now you're doing your own thing.

Like, that is so admirable.

I'm so excited to see

what you got going on.

Let's get into it.

So, before we talk about what's happening next week, I want to touch on the three versus three tournament that you had.

Tell us how this came about.

Okay.

So, I want to say like the beginning of July after the fourth, we had came up with an idea.

Me and my girlfriend, we was going to give her like 50 dinners

to

people in our hood, just our hood.

But then we started getting attention.

Like, we could do more than 50.

We could help y'all.

We could do 100.

It's going to be a nice little crowd.

Let me add to you, because that's what I really was doing for the people, the

kids, and by

Moody Park 5306.

Because we lack somebody that want to take the initiative to go over there because people be scared of over there.

But

I'm from over there, so I didn't see the worst of the worst.

So I know me, partially as a kid, when it was people like Jerry or we had the A-Dogs that came and talked to us,

we listened to them.

A-Dog off 2-6, 2-7.

We listened to them.

So

mom, long live mom.

We have people that care, but it's just, if you're going to take the initiative,

with 100 people, 200 people, because we really want to touch more than 5306.

We could touch more zip codes,

the whole

America.

to the black community in general, to kids that think it ain't nobody out there that wanna listen.

I'm

here to listen.

We got people that wanna listen to y'all.

We here to

help y'all.

Y'all can get through anything.

Y'all don't have to look cool.

Think y'all gotta be accepted by no crowd.

Cause

it's the other crowd that accept y'all cause I ain't lame.

I'm ready to do whatever y'all want to do.

That's right.

That's right.

And you know what?

You are the perfect example of what it means to be from where you are and actually do the work, right?

Oftentimes people think you gotta be a part of a organization or you gotta be, you know, just.

is always out there, that's not the case.

You can be from the same very, the hood that you from and still do the work.

That is true, because like I said, I started working with Jasmine.

Jasmine used to have us come to do UFC events, high stuff for

us

to be involved in so you don't gotta go do nothing negative.

And I was one of the people that used to take the initiative.

Yeah, I'll go, I'll go get that little extra money then standing on a block and I'll get a couple people off the block and do it then.

Yes,

and you know what, and we have fun, so.

Um, I had the honor of working with Anthony Pettis while he was building APFC up and my job was to hire people to work the events.

I'll hit Marvel.

Hey, y'all want to listen?

We go in Indiana.

We, you know, downtown Milwaukee, wherever.

But, um, it's stuff like that.

Like that's what you're supposed to do.

You're supposed to reach back.

So again, like to see you in your own light now and reach him back.

Man, my mom's so proud of you.

You and Vaughn, like I said, I looked at Vaughn.

We used to go volunteer at stuff and I seen like.

He pushing a positive message, like I said on the news,

more

positive energy, more positive people.

We're more powerful together than a part.

All the competition that's dead.

We hear the push of unity message.

I don't care

where you from.

I don't care if you from the South side, North side, West side.

We all

trying to come together because it's a powerful message when we get together.

Everybody can say how they feel.

It's

like a bigger picture.

I'm off 25th and Burla, five, three, two, zero, six.

I was raised over there.

I could see whatever you all think you all are saying.

You be your own example.

You take a different path.

You could do whatever you want to do.

It don't matter who think you lame, whatever, because it's people rocking with me that you would never think.

And it's people that's higher.

So it don't matter where you from, whatever

you

do, you can have corporations or people from your hood rocking with you.

You just got to.

Push it and make sure you put forth ever to do what you want to do.

Yes.

And if I'm not mistaken, I know for a fact, writing Buford is from over there.

Shout out to writing Buford.

He used to play for the 76ers.

And Crowley is from over there as well.

Yeah, 23rd and Barlow.

Yeah, he's from over there as well.

We've done Tay Day over there.

We've done multiple events.

But I'm excited about what's cracking next week.

You want to get into that?

So we got this week, actually, y'all.

This

week?

Yeah.

Heal the hood on the 29th.

Oh, yeah.

It starts this week.

Yeah.

Shout

out to...

So Ajah move his on the 29th field of hood.

He gonna be there from 21st to 24th.

But then on the 30th, if I got my own, which is NGL, if you're watching law, NGL,

next generation leaders.

I ain't gotta give me some merch.

I got you a shirt Sunday.

I got you a shirt Sunday.

I got you a size you need.

Small.

We got

you.

I got you.

Come through Sunday, I got the shirt for you for show.

But Sunday, we is gonna be having a back to school giveaway on 25th and Burla.

two blocks away from Moody where we did it on the 22nd.

And

it's

bigger this time.

We doing more than 100 book bags.

That was my goal, but the much support and love I got for the community, we giving out 400 book bags

now.

We got five spray grounds, we ruffling off for free, two foot locker gift cards, we got...

Man, a mystery box full with Lulu Lemon, Nike, Adidas for the kids.

It's for the kids.

So

any parent that think y'all need help from back to school, y'all can come

to

25th and Burla.

We got all the help for your free braids, free haircuts.

What else we got, Jerry?

Spelling bee.

Yeah.

Let me talk about that.

Come on now.

This is my opinion.

When you said me, I was like, let's go.

Yeah.

Like I said, I'm 29.

I'm the first person ever to host a spelling bee outside of school setting.

We push in literacy.

We want an astronaut out of 5306.

We want them lawyers.

We

want them basketball players too, but we want you all to be successful wherever you think you can be.

You don't got to think you got to be a basketball player to be cool because I hoot.

I took the route to hoot, but

when

you don't have nothing to go, when you make a...

Mistake what you gonna do after the hooping that's

what career do you want to have?

Hooping really plan B or that's your plan B Make sure y'all got your aid the career that you really want to have that's gonna set you up for life longevity

Whether it's you putting in work in the community, whether you want to be a video game designer, do what you want to do because you can do whatever you want to do.

Yes.

Yes.

So what is this spelling bee until?

Like how what what are the ages and what are the prizes?

The age range.

We got two brackets.

We doing first through eighth grade, like the national spelling bee, like the real one.

So

then we got 400 props for that.

And any kid that get in, they get a $25 gift card just for participating.

Yeah.

And then ninth through 12th grade, we got 402.

So we giving out a total of $1,000 for the spelling bee.

So parents, make sure y'all children watch Akilah and Abbey.

Y'all better get them

together.

I sure got my godson and my little sister watching Akilah and Abbey.

Shout out Connie, man.

He's been watching.

My godson

will be

spilling every word.

Every time you walk in, they spelling.

That's what I said.

I just text all the high school kids and sent them the flyer.

They like easy 400.

It's going to be competitive.

That's what we want to push the competition of literacy.

You ain't got to always be in competition through clothes, streets, none of that.

We right here, whatever you want to do, we can do.

Man, it's so much coming, though, the spelling bee just to begin in your NGO coming to stay.

We're

here

to be here for five, three, two, six, five, three, two, six and any other zip code.

How can parents sign their children up for the Spelling Bee?

Uh, add me on Facebook at nglmarmarinboxme or y'all can email me at shamarklay25 at gmail.com.

I might sign up for the Spelling Bee.

I was just like, we need to do an adult Spelling Bee.

I might have to have a adult Spelling Bee.

I'm gonna see if y'all still got

it, man.

Hey, listen, I'm trying to tell you because there's some people out here now.

They keep asking me, let me join you, say $400.

Yeah, we giving out a thousand because we want people to be.

in tune with spelling, with your literacy.

They teach us all that extra stuff.

We really need math,

reading, spelling.

You want to hoop, you still got to spell.

You're going to have to read plays.

You're going to

have to do

that.

You want to play music, you got to read them notes.

You

got

to know.

Reading and spelling, math, evolving to anything you want to do.

Yes.

Yes.

So, and you say you'll be at Hill to Hood this weekend.

Yeah, I'm

volunteering at Hill to Hood on the 29th.

Aja Moolit out there.

He going to be there from 21st.

He blocking off 21st to 24th in Burla.

They giving out a

hood.

Y'all resources all out too.

It's a Burla takeover,

man.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, I ain't from that side of Burla.

I'm from 14, but if you off Burla, you off Burla.

It's the whole zoo.

We a whole family, man.

Yeah, we are.

Listen, make sure y'all stop by this weekend.

If you want to sign your babies up for the Spellabee, do that as well.

There's so much more we're going to talk about that's happening the rest of the week.

Do not touch that dial.

We got to go to break to pay some bills.

We got Marmar in the building.

She girl, Jazz Tyler, one on one, seven is

true.

One-on-one,

seven and truth is your girl Jazz Tyler.

We are live and direct.

We got Mar-Mar and Darius in the building.

Man, listen, we have some amazing events coming up.

If you are just now tuning in today, we've been talking about the youth.

And we know that there's a lot of negative things that's happening to our babies.

Before brother Aziz got off, he mentioned that the very institutions and places that the youth should feel safe, they don't.

We're talking at home, in a hood, at schools, right?

Which was the purpose of creating the summer safe program.

And but also it don't stop there, right?

You have to be a pillar in your own community and we are sitting with someone who is a perfect example of that.

I'm at Mar-Mar about seven years ago.

We've done Tay Day together with Vaughn.

We've done basketball tournaments.

We've done the APFC, MMA.

We've done so many community events, and now she's doing her own thing.

Tell us about some of the things you got coming up this

week.

So Sunday, like I said, the Back to School event, I want y'all to bring y'all kids, because we do got 400 book bags that do got to give away.

We got 100 hygiene bags for the kids in high school.

You know, after lunch, we got...

Two-Pace so they can brush their teeth after June.

You got deodorant.

We got that little bar soap if you got swimming.

That'd

be Roy in class.

Man, so come hit us up on 25th of Berla.

We got Bounce House, uh, Crystal West from our Money United coming to do face paint, a whole kitty corner.

You get free books, face paint, make bracelets.

Uh, it's so much.

We got Myron hosting the Spelling Bee.

Shout out Myron.

He off 24th of Locust.

We got, uh...

Bup, you coming through?

We got Steve coming through.

Yeah, it's going

down.

If

you ain't on Burla on Sunday, man, I'll feel bad for

you.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's the car, Zulu.

It's the car.

And like I said, we want the kids to know, like Z said, y'all is safe in your own neighborhood.

If you don't want to go home and talk to somebody, it is somebody.

That's outside.

They want to talk to you.

It'd be getting on my nerves.

I'll go down the block.

Ain't nobody playing no more.

You won't even see kids outside because like Aziz said, they don't feel safe.

Parents don't even want them to go outside.

So on Sunday, I want to see 500 plus people that I'm a touch that's going to make me feel the way I might cross Sunday.

If I touch the kids, they're going to be happy because I know you all need that help.

It's plenty single mamas out here.

Got to pay for five kids to get there and they'll know you can come to the block party.

We got somebody there for you.

People that's going to talk to you.

Shout out Amir from 414 Life.

Yeah man, he coming, doing haircuts, he bringing people with him man.

We got a lot of people coming to do haircuts.

Shout out to all the barbers and beautician.

that volunteer at their time, too.

Yeah, so I'm excited about this event that's happening Friday, too, with Golden Child.

We did an event with him last year at No Studios, but he's coming down here Friday as well.

Can you talk to us about

that?

We live with disease in David.

We're trying to be 500 deep at Moody on 21st and Burla.

So I need all my people.

If you mess with NGOs, you mess with truth.

If you mess with disease, if you ever see Safe Summer, we need.

50 people to bring 10 people, you're a 500 people.

We trying to be 500 people deep, man.

Can you talk to

us about the purpose of this event?

Yeah, it's to push unity and peace to show people that, like I said before, the message is more powerful when we together.

So Aziz, coming together with somebody from Chicago, coming together with Pliny.

Small grassroots groups in Milwaukee to show that we can push unity and peace and it is somebody here like Aziz.

I respect him so much as I met him and I'm navigating through learning new stuff because I am young.

But I know for a fact I go off with intuition and Aziz a good man.

So if we can get all the people that really.

Want to do something positive, even if you don't.

Just come see.

Come see.

It might change the life.

You might really want to do it.

So come with us on Friday.

We is going to be 500D.

Bring your kids.

Bring your grandma.

Bring everybody.

Everybody.

Everybody got to come.

Darius, you going to be a part of this too, right?

I keep saying Darius.

I'm sorry.

Darius

been knowing me since I was 10 years old, man.

What do you think about all of these events?

Yes,

yes, yes.

So, um, first and foremost, I want, I just want to reiterate that I think oftentimes people have

this perception that you have to be in a certain position to do things for your community, right?

Or you have to, you know, have a certain amount of money.

You got to

act a certain way

or talk at that point, that part.

You just got to take a stand because like I said, I'm 29 and there's so many people that's older than me that I didn't heard complain about stuff that goes on.

Like, uh, this and that.

They don't ever do this for the hood.

Don't nobody do this for the hood.

Who's stopping you?

Come on.

Who's stopping you?

Come on now.

Because I'm going to do what I think that I'm going to do that's right.

And like I said, like I just told you when it was off the air, it'd be God.

It'd be like a calling.

So you stop everything and do what God wants you to do.

And that's him wanting me to get into touch with the youth in Milwaukee.

Because like I said, I've been in that position.

I know if you get a little bit of support.

I know if you got somebody behind you, you can actually, like we said, somebody out.

5-3-2-0-6 can actually be what we want them to be.

An astronaut, a teacher, a doctor, you can be whatever you want to be.

Like I said, a rapper, whatever you want to be, you put in forth the time and you put in forth the effort.

So you can do what you want to do and you find people that want to support that dream.

It be some people that be around that don't want to support the dream.

So I've been learning that too as I navigate.

Some people can't be around.

Some people not going to want to be down with what you want to be down.

So I don't have friends for 20 years.

Still friends, but we just don't talk.

It's all I love.

But right now I'm on this.

You're on that.

The

most important thing you said that stood out, and I always tell the youth, this too, is...

You gotta live there, so you should want to participate

in what's

happening, right?

You should want to be a part of the solution because you have to live in those neighborhoods.

I know you've been through a lot, and I know that there's a lot of youth who have been through some things or are going through some things, right?

Can you walk us through your journey of the trials and tribulations and how you got to the point where you was like, you know what, I gotta give back.

I'm not gonna give up, but I'm gonna give back.

I wanna say around April, like one of my close friends.

He up in jail for some stupid stuff like we could do different like that was like Breaking strong and then my other friend mookie.

He got 10 years.

So I'm like damn my nephew want to be

Super tough hang with older people.

I'm over here having conversations with him.

I'm looking at him in his eyes.

I'm crying, telling him like, you don't want to do this, bro.

I'm tired of my niggas going to

do.

I'm tired of my people going to jail.

I'm tired of people dying.

You don't want to live that life, bro.

I started losing friends when I was 12 years old for the system and to the graveyard.

It look cool, but after a while you gonna miss them.

You gonna wonder why we gotta go through it.

Why do we have to go through this route?

So, let me take a different route.

Let me see some.

Let me show my nephew them something different.

Cause I really always been a leader.

Always been the one that do different stuff.

I ain't never been a follower.

And when people didn't wanna go to school, I still went to school.

I always been my own person.

Like I said, you gotta be you.

You gotta be you.

Whatever you wanna do, do it.

And it's like I came up with NGL in 2021 when we lost some we lost a lot of people in 2020 which scared me like because I used to be posted on the block on the corner.

You've seen people die.

You will see somebody like nobody there to help.

But the hood there to help.

But they don't make it.

Long live my own.

That scared me.

I moved to Memphis for a year and a half, was at my mama house sitting there thinking like, how could I do this?

How could I do that?

And I came up with NGL.

But I never put forth effort to do it until this year.

You know why?

Because I got people away from me.

You can't be one foot in, one foot out.

So like I said, I been came over with NGL.

And what do we NGL stand for?

Next generation leaders.

Everybody be like, do it.

Is it not going a lot?

No, this was in 2021 before y'all even came

up with

that said.

But like I said, it was my nephew, Tristan.

moan with a little torture with a little Mookie.

So I'm like, man, I'm tired of that.

Y'all be tired of people.

You ain't tired of people going to jail or dying.

Right.

So it's like.

If I gotta be the one in my hood to stand to take the different route, I'ma do it, because I got people that listen to me, like I said, because I've always been a leader.

Marmar ain't coming to put you on a bull stuff.

I'ma put you on some game, something that's gonna help you in life, navigate through life, so we can succeed, because that's the end goal to be successful.

I want something to leave a mark.

When I leave, I want people to know what NGL is, what they stand for, and that we was here to help the next generation of leaders, so they can keep going.

And I love the fact that we come from...

We come from 5, 3, 2, 0, 6.

You know, whether it's 24, 25th of Berlin, 14th of Berlin, 1st of Berlin, 42nd of Berlin, at the end of the day, mainly where we're from, they consider that to be the poor zip code, and the zip code with the most incarcerated

black men

throughout the nation, right?

But what I love is...

that we need to start highlighting more of the people that's changing that narrative.

I don't like to follow that narrative, right?

Because it's too much work that's being had.

And kids, believe that.

That's what I want to tell y'all too.

When you label a kid and you tell a kid, you bad.

I don't want to deal with that kid.

That's them YNs.

They listen to y'all.

That's why they don't respect y'all.

Y'all treat them how y'all want to be treated.

When you see a group of kids doing something wrong, just chop it up with them.

I do it all the time.

Respect them how they respect you.

Y'all tell them what they can't be, what they can't do, and then want them to treat y'all with the utmost respect.

Yes.

Respect to you for how y'all want them to respect y'all.

That's a big calling with adults ourselves.

They don't want to listen.

Y'all don't want to listen to you.

Y'all tell them you're always wrong.

You don't know what you're talking about.

I've been here for 50 years.

Just listen.

Yes.

If y'all can just listen and then tell them what y'all think.

But listen to them first.

Try that.

Listen to y'all kids first because I know I didn't be in first hand trying to tell somebody.

I've been here for 50 years.

But let me tell y'all, y'all been here for 50 years, but have y'all lost 50 people?

It's 20 people in the graveyard.

Do y'all got 20 people in jail?

Do y'all get 10 collect calls a day?

How you feel, what we feel?

So just listen to how we feel first before y'all try to judge them.

You don't know, your calling could be the next person to save your man.

That's what I be trying to tell people.

Just keep going, bro.

Keep going.

You don't know who you will meet.

You don't know what.

What blessing you will get in this car?

Because right now all I know is that it's people that want to help like Aziz.

People sit there complaining and say it ain't nobody helping.

It is people helping.

It's a thought to people helping.

Get up, get off the couch and go get the help that you're asking for.

Because it's somebody right in your face like him that'll help you do what you're trying to do.

So with that being said, we lit Sunday, Saturday, and September 4th, we need 500 people to walk with Aziz.

Yeah, we pulling up.

We pulling up, we pulling up deep.

I vowed to bring my youth from the school.

You know, all of the youth that I know, all of the youth that I know in school, in outside of school, is going down.

Again, I would love to see all generations there.

I would love to see all generations for one time to come like where it feels safe enough to where the elders can come out and walk with us.

So we are cordially inviting everybody in they mama literally.

Bring them out.

Bring your momma.

Bring your grandmomma, your granddaddy, your uncles, your aunties, your cousins, everybody.

Everybody is invited.

There will be no issues.

We're pushing for a positive way to end this summer.

Before we get out of here, you got some shoutouts, momma?

Oh, yeah.

Shoutout to my whole team, NGL.

Shoutout to Safe Summer Collective.

Shoutout to Dominican Center.

Like I said, shoutout to everybody that's been helping me.

It's a long list.

Shoutout to everybody that's been helping me, supporting me.

Shoutout to Get In.

From TMJ4, he put a lot of light to what's going on, what I got going on.

Like I said, we started with a hundred books.

We were supposed to have a hundred book bags.

We got four hundred book bags.

A hundred and twenty-five hygiene bags.

So much food.

Shout out Junior's Cornerstone 25th.

They collabing with us.

He's going to be giving out a drink.

It's about the unity measures.

Like I said, I want to push everybody to know like we be looking crazy at it when we all saw it, but we all we got.

Yes,

we are.

So I'll be trying to see you all complain about every other.

Race or whatever at least bring your race the black community We need to be more in touch with the youth and come together more instead of always complaining about what people don't do and why they don't do it Let's let's do it.

That's right.

That's right, man

We pulling up, make sure y'all support the youth, man.

For real, I don't want to hear about the problem.

Are you a part of the solution?

We pulling up.

Thank you so much, Marmar.

Thank y'all so much for joining us today.

We got to go to break.

When we come back, we're going to touch back into this situation that happened with the security guard in the Milwaukee Public School.

And I'm going to give my testimony as well.

It's your girl, Jazz Tyler, one-on-one, seven of truth.

One on one, seven and truth is your girl Jazz Tyler.

We are live and direct.

Shout out to Aziz and Marmar for stopping through with some positive things, man.

We've been busting our bust this summer.

Also, shout out to Alderman Chambers for his Back to School Festival happening Sunday, August 30th from 12 p.m.

to 4 p.m.

at the Indigenous People Park, located at 7301 West Quarland Avenue.

They're gonna have some free book bags with supplies to kids, a fun zone and some hygiene products.

Shout out to Mark for real because...

Not just because he's an elected official, but he really do be pulling up.

He pulled up to the lock-ins.

He pulled up to all of the community events when he came in and that's admirable.

So again, shout out to Auderman Chambers and what he had going on as well.

So before we have special guests, we were talking about this criminal complaint of this security guard at Lincoln Arts Middle School.

Lincoln.

arts middle school here in Milwaukee.

And I actually got a chance to sit down with Homer Blow during the grapevine segment to discuss the little bit of this.

And he showed me the criminal complaint.

And, you know, for starters, it triggered me because I am someone who was sexually abused as a minor at nine years old.

And then by the time I turned 15,

I was in the process or someone was in a process of attempting to groom me as well an adult male and This is something that you know, I don't talk about publicly.

I've mentioned things here and there But with all of the things that's happening with all of the students that I have I want to share I want to start talking about these things a the main reason why I love working with youth and specifically as an educator is especially when it comes to

the music industry is because I want to be the person that protects them from the predators, right?

A lot of times, um, our young ladies, they grow up faster than what they're supposed to because naturally, you know, I'm the oldest.

I'm the oldest of four.

Um, there was, you know, when you're the oldest, there's a lot of responsibilities placed on you.

Um, you know, that adults should have and it's not anyone's fault, especially your parents.

It's just that.

You know, that's life, right?

And what happens is subconsciously you begin to, you know, believe that you are grown.

So if you are taking care of helping, taking care of your younger siblings, you know, you begin to work a job on your own money.

Now you feel like you can do what you want or whatever because you're helping your parents pay bills.

And you just, and, you know, you have grown men, unfortunately, who are constantly going after young ladies, right?

So.

In this criminal complaint, there are some things that I want to point out before I give my testimony to the youth.

Whenever there is an adult, first and foremost, contacting you via social media, please make sure that you do not respond and that you go.

Whether it's social media text message in school, wherever it is or whatever form of communication they use, please listen to me.

All of my babies out there.

I don't care if you five years old to 17.

Understand that your parents is there.

And if you don't have that type of situation, go to a teacher, go to an educator, find a safe space, meaning a person that you can confide in and let them know what is happening, right?

You have to be able to find that one person to tell.

I know that it's frightening.

I know that it's terrifying.

because I once was you, right?

If that has happened to you, I once was that little girl who was scared to tell somebody that somebody penetrated me at nine years old.

I was once that little girl at 15 who was being taken advantage of by an adult male and I was afraid to tell somebody.

And it didn't come out until I was 22 years old.

I just had a meltdown one day because I couldn't understand certain things.

And when I started to go through my healing process and my healing journey, I began to understand why I was afraid to speak up about it.

But I want to talk about, outside of this conversation and this criminal complaint, because we've discussed it and we've talked about it with Homer, I want to talk about the word grooming.

Because there is a lot of grooming that has been happening

In this city that continues to happen and unless and probably will continue to happen obviously because we can't stop it all but we have to do something about it Going back to what Aziz stated earlier the fact that we are in a state where not meaning literal the state of Wisconsin but us as a people we are in a state where There's no place safe for a child anymore Not the home not the school not the community, right?

There is no safe institutions, there is nowhere a child can go where they don't feel like the pressures or things like this happening.

It's unfortunate, it's sickening, it's triggering, but it's also a reality.

And everybody has to play a part in this.

Whether you want to or not, because it's a real thing.

Again, real people, real conversations.

We never sit down and have these conversations.

primarily because you may have been the parent who knew your brother was touching on your daughter or your son, and you were so embarrassed by it that you did not, you know, you just swept it under the rug.

You didn't want to talk about it.

You didn't want the family to know.

You didn't want anybody to know.

And because you were so ashamed in the same breath during that process, you were neglecting your child, right?

Y'all know what I'm talking about and it happened a lot with the older generation the grandmamas and the parents where when there was somebody in their household being sexually abused They chose to sweep it under the rug instead of protecting that child and addressing it right and the reason why I'm bringing this up is because that's the first accountability it starts inside of your home Before you can blame the school

Before you can blame community before you can blame these crazy guys out here who be praying on young ladies and young men it starts at home So if you have or you've seen or been in a situation like that, I ask that you break that generational curse, right?

There's nothing more Devastating than to grow up in a household where you are being sexually abused by an uncle or cousin of your parent boyfriends

and or or girlfriend because it's not one sided right and that adult dismisses it or even accused you of lying simply because of whatever reason they have and then that child grows up to be you know however that child grows up to be but grooming is real and I am I am really tired of seeing

All of these articles come out at least two to three times a year about a staff member inside of the school system who are, you know, obviously they vet them out because you have to go through a background check.

But to Earl's point earlier, the caller who caught in earlier, you won't always know everybody that's a predator don't necessarily have a record, right?

So how are you able to even identify this?

And I say this because I feel like as educators, as adults, as parents, when you are working inside of the school system, there is something called red flags, right?

We all know what a red flag is and whether it's someone behaving too friendly with the youth.

Um, you know, they have this thing now in which I understand where the school system says you can't, they don't like you to hug students, right?

Which is why I like working at the black schools because, um, there is a way to properly show affection to your, to your student without it being inappropriate.

And truth be told, a lot of these youth needed.

A lot of them needed because they're not getting it from anywhere.

So I'm not talking about a red flag in that sense, right?

Obviously you shouldn't really see grown men hugging.

You know, I'm saying little girls and stuff like that.

But when I'm reading this complaint, I can't help but to think because he was not only grooming, but he was recruiting.

He was telling the young man that he was initially started, who he initially started this conversation with to go and get the other students.

Hey, hit so-and-so up and tell them to call me.

And then in the complaint in states that the young man said, why?

Or what if he asks why?

And he says, well, don't tell him.

You can't tell me that there wasn't some type of red flag or behavior of him doing something inside of the school that people was that the staff was not paying attention to, right?

Obviously he doesn't have a record for this.

Otherwise they wouldn't have been able to hide it.

But there had to been signs.

And to the youth out there, I want to tell you what those signs are and what you can do because I went through it.

Again, the grooming is a real thing.

When you're dealing with certain people, you have to understand why they think the way that they think.

So now for me, I was sexually abused at nine years old by someone who was 16 at the time.

And it wasn't just a touchy feeling situation.

It was a situation where it was penetration.

By the time I turned 15 I I won't go into details as far as how I met this person because they are still in the city of Milwaukee But what I will say is that They utilize my love for a specific gift that I have as far as talents

and what I'm into, ways to express myself in the arts.

So I always play basketball, I always did poetry, I always did music, braided hair, all of that stuff.

And they utilize gifts, they utilize compliments, they utilize, you know, making me feel like I was just it, the it girl, like, hey, you're gonna be this, you're gonna be this big, da, da, da, constantly buying things to try and get me to buy into whatever it was that they were selling.

And because I had never had this conversation, I did not understand that they were grooming me, right?

They were grooming me to be whatever it is that they wanted me to be or they were trying to groom me.

But by the grace of God, eventually I caught on and I didn't know that that's what they were doing, but I just knew something wasn't right.

So I put myself in a situation to separate myself from that person so that I would no longer have to be around them.

I know there's this thing about people I see on social media make jokes about girls in high school that dated older guys that would pick them up from school.

Well, that was me.

I didn't date older guys.

But again, this particular person was around me from the age of 15 until I was about 18.

So roughly about three years, this person was around me.

This person was picking me up from school.

This person was buying me gifts.

This person was investing in what it was that I wanted to do and how they got me was by saying, hey, I know that you like to do this and I do this too.

We should do it together.

And my 15 year old self said, you got to talk to my mama.

You know what I'm saying?

That was the first thing I said out the gate.

And to my youth and my students that's listening that should always be the case, right?

It should always that should always be the case if there's any adult Who wants to invest or do whatever they need to be talking to your parents?

Especially if it's not from school or anything like that if it even if it is in school, right when I talk to my youth

I always make sure that I have a report with the parents.

I have the contact information.

I have that initial conversation.

I'm going to update them on whatever it is.

You know, hey, Ms.

Jazz, I want to come up to the station or Ms.

Jazz, I want to do this.

Okay.

Can you pick me up?

Yup.

Tell your mama or your daddy to text me or tell them to call me, right?

There is never a situation where you should be, uh, assisting the youth or mentoring the youth and you're not talking to their parent or their guardian.

Okay.

So being around this person and, um, you know, finding, he found the common ground.

Hey, I do this, you do this.

I want to help you do it.

Right.

And when you're talking to, when you're an adult talking to a child that lives in an environment that is.

I'm not talking about the household, but the area, the neighborhood, right?

When they come from poverty, they don't have a lot, right?

They getting in how they live.

I was 15 years old helping my mom raise my younger siblings.

I was working at the Midwest Express Center, and then I started working at Full Locker.

I was also braiding here at the barbershop and going to school at the same time because we didn't have much.

We wasn't poor, we had food, we had clothes, we had a house.

But my mom was a single mother of four children.

We didn't have much, so I had to take care of myself.

I started taking care of myself financially at the age of 12.

I started braiding here just to make money to get school clothes.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have had clothes for school because she had to make sure my younger siblings were taken care of, right?

So at this age, I'm in survivor mode, eh?

This is early, early 2000s, right at the beginning of the 2000s when the music industry was still

An industry that you will want to be a part of and everybody's dream that's into

to music and things like that is, hey, I gotta make it.

I gotta take my mama out of the hood.

And when you have that mind frame, again, that's surviving and you have to be careful because there are people who will pray on you, right?

They see your witness and they will pray on you.

We're gonna finish this conversation when we come back from break.

It's your girl, Jazz Tyler.

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One-on-one seven the truth this your girl Jazz Tyler.

We are live and direct and we are talking about How to keep the youth safe man?

We are talking about grooming.

We are talking about this complaint this criminal complaint of the security guard who was working at a local middle school here in the city of Milwaukee and Before we went to break I was just explaining my situation and what I went through at 15 years old and how I experienced an adult male attempting to groom me

uh, for a course of a little over two and a half years.

Um, and it wasn't until I under something happened, not like a situation, but something happened inside of me that made me realize that what he was doing wasn't right.

Although I knew it wasn't right from the beginning, but the reality is, and I'm in the reason why I'm explaining this is because when you are a child, you don't know how to explain it and you don't understand it until you are an adult.

But the reason why.

I didn't understand initially what was going on was because I've never, I didn't have these conversations, right?

Especially when you're growing up in a time, and I'm not blaming it on this, but I'm gonna keep it all the way funky.

Again, this is my point of view.

This is the beginning of the 2000s.

This is when you have Payton Fool is out, you know, Code is Winter Ever, that book, if you guys used to read books.

There were so many different narratives in the early 2000s of young women dating older men.

And obviously this has had been going on for quite some time, right?

But it was normal.

The books we were reading, the TV shows and movies we were watching, it was happening.

So in my mind, I didn't really see that, you know, something was wrong.

I knew something was wrong, but it didn't really click to me.

And

From 15 to 17, most definitely when you are 17, you age a little more, you go through things.

And that's when it was just like, listen, I got to figure out a way to break away from this because this is not right.

I don't even know who I'm a tell.

I don't have nobody that I feel comfortable enough to tell.

And it's not to say that my father was incarcerated, my brothers were incarcerated.

So there was no men in my life at the time.

Um, my stepfather had moved out of state.

So it was just my mom and my mom worked so much.

I didn't even want to stress her with anything.

So there literally was nobody, no adult that I felt comfortable enough talking to about this.

And the reason why I'm saying that is because that is typically the situation when it comes to youth.

It ain't that they don't feel like, like that, that they don't trust their parents.

It's because they're afraid.

They don't know how to say it.

You become afraid that you're going to be getting in trouble or that you are the issue.

And when I'm reading this complaint again, it was triggering to me because some of the language he was using, right?

So I won't reiterate a lot of it because I know a lot of our listeners probably heard it earlier when Homer was

on air, but for those who were not on air, I just want to briefly go through some of these things so that you can understand where I'm coming from, but also begin to have these conversations with your child and to the youth who is listening so that you will know when adults do inappropriate things, it may not show up in a way that you expected to to where it is out in the open.

It may show up in other types of ways.

The defendant last name is party Initially what he did was reacted to an image which was a picture that was on the gentleman the young man's Page on his social media page and it was him and his basketball uniform and he put a fire emoji and then he Proceeded to call him this was six o'clock in the morning.

He called him exactly through Instagram at 6 12 a.m.

I guess the young man didn't answer

And he goes on to say, proud of you.

And then the young man says, thank you, right?

Then he flatters him by calling him the goat.

He says, you the goat.

And he tells him to tell another child, said, hit me up.

The young man says, OK, he responds back and say, hey, you the big guy and put a heart emoji, right?

I'm sorry.

The young man puts a heart emoji and then the defendant responds with refire emojis.

Then he says lol lame and the reason why I say it that way is because if you know men or young men That's how they talk of lame you lame So he proceeds to call the young man lame and the young man says what I do lol Now mind you if you're a child and he's responding or reacting to a basketball photo

In your mind, you're going to, we're not even just a child, anybody, you're going to automatically think that he's talking about something with basketball or something that you did that was funny or whatever the case may be.

And then he says, he proceeds to say, you were lame.

Again, he says because of, he mentions another child's name and he says, you're both lame, but you really not lame because you the big guy.

And then he put a fire emoji and the young man says, what do you mean?

And he says, nothing, Lane.

And the young man says, nah, that's you, LOL.

And the defendant says, that's because you don't get it.

So he's talking in cold, right?

He's talking to this, this young man in cold.

The young man says, well, you ain't saying nothing.

That's what any logical person, any person with the logical response would say, right?

I'm sorry, any person who thinks logically, they will say that.

Then the defendant responds with a laugh and emoji and asks him what do you mean and He just says I you're not saying nothing and He says it again.

You're not saying nothing.

So basically the young man stops Communication he puts a hard stop to the communication at that point which then signifies That something is wrong that he feels uncomfortable.

He don't really understand it, but because it's not

Out he's not being super outspoken with or direct with what he's trying to convey He can't really respond in a certain way and say don't you know talk to me or don't reach out So he just withdraw his communication Then he goes the defendant goes to call the young man at 623 and Then he calls him again at 624

And he gets no response.

And the defendant says, hey, little bro.

And then the young man says, man, I'm playing 2K.

I can't talk right now.

So he puts a laugh in emoji.

The defendant does.

And he say, what high school you at?

And he says, Riverside.

He said, OK, back.

And then the young man says, you, you saying a lot, but you not saying enough.

So the defendant puts, you know, laughing my ass off.

What am I supposed to say?

Let me know.

What should I say?

and he calls the young man by his first name, and then he says, you planned, he asked him if he was playing 2K.

And the young man proceeds to say, why you calling me king?

And then he mentions his first name, you scared to keep it real.

And the defendant said, reacts with a laugh and emoji.

So basically he, you know, he begins to call him the king, you know, big guy, all of these flattering terms.

And he proceeds to say, I'm not scared to keep it real.

Then someone in the chat turned on disappearing messages.

The new messages and reactions typically disappears 24 hours after everyone has viewed them.

And he goes on to continue to call him the big guy, the king, you know, all of this stuff.

Now this is where it turns.

This is where it gets very, very, in my opinion, scary.

He calls him at 641, the defendant.

He calls him, he doesn't answer.

He calls him again, 641 doesn't answer.

Waits two minutes, calls him again at 643, doesn't ask her, calls him again at 643 via this social media app.

He doesn't answer.

Then, um, he proceeds to say, nevermind, right?

So the defendant says, I'm not scared.

I can get active cause again at 647.

No response from the young man cause again at 647.

Then he texts and says, Hey, Elaine.

Then he says big and it caused him by his first man Then he calls him again at 649 then he texts and says you scared then he calls him again at 651 Then he turns off the disappearing messages now he proceeds to say yo mr. 2k Why you acting funny?

656 cost 657 cost 659 cost so he's from the course of 641 all the way up into

7 743 a.m.

That's almost an hour he proceeds to call and text him and When you hear some of the things that that he

one-on-one seven the truth is your girl Jazz Tyler we are live and direct and we are talking about this criminal complaint of this MPS security guard who was reaching out to students inappropriately the bigger picture is just grooming in general because he was he was charged with four counts and I was also given the testimony of some things I've experienced as a 15 year old who was

pursued by a male, an adult male, in attempts of what I now know as grooming, but back then I had no idea.

And the criminal complaint, I stated that before we went to break between the timeframe of 641 a.m.

to 743 a.m., he began to consistently reach out to this student.

And there's a point in the conversation where the young man stops the communication.

And then the defendant party, he begins to call him constantly, right?

So he starts by, you know, flattering him, saying, you the goat, you the big guy, you know, reacting to his basketball jerseys or uniform and all of that stuff.

Just doing it in a way where, and then he calls him lame.

So he's doing it in a way where it's like almost childish as if it's a little boy who wants to.

You know, let's say a little boy hits a girl at school because he likes her initially the young lady is gonna believe that he don't like her But in his mind he do he just doesn't know how to say it.

That's how I Equivalent this him calling the young man Lane, right?

It's almost like Like he's trying to tell him or show him that he like him and he's doing it in a childish manner so This is victim number one.

This is the report

that the report that is happening between him and the first student.

Now, victim number two, it says on August 18th, 2026, an MPS employee, Ms.

Coleman called police wanting to report the defendant was having inappropriate conversations with two teenage boys because that car wheel was familiar with the defendant in this conduct.

He responded to MPS administration to meet with the caller.

Ms.

Coleman informed that

A detective call will that she had recently met with the young man and his father and miss Coleman stated that she was researching the defendants Instagram and identified a child With the initials I won't say But basically she identified another that he was in communication with another child and miss Coleman called that child's mother and met with that child earlier that day

And that child provided an Instagram chat with the defendant on his Instagram, um, the defendant's Instagram, which is tone underscore party.

Um, and you know, there was some messages that was discussed with him.

Now, if you recall earlier, when he was talking to the other young man, he was telling him to tell another student to contact him.

And when he asked him about it, he said, well, what if he asks why he said, don't tell him.

So this is not only grooming, he's recruiting.

He's attempting to recruit and these are young men by the way These are not young ladies that he was recruited and he was attempting to recruit and groom young men so with the other child He put he posted picture on Instagram that says I'm almost six foot and Party says replies to his post by saying I'm almost six foot.

He said yeah, you a big guy Yeah, you six foot you got a big one

Mr. Six feet Utah big guy and then he proceeds to say Put it in my face big guy and The young man says we just came back from Ohio so Yeah He goes on to use childlike terminology by calling him his twin now this conversation with the

Second young man, it doesn't state the time, but on the second thread, he reached out to him May 27th of 2026 at 227 AM and say, yo, twin.

And the young man says, yo, and he says, what you doing, twin?

And the young man says, trying to go to sleep for school, what you on?

And the defendant says, going to sleep for work.

He says, lol, going to sleep for work.

I'll see you tomorrow, twin.