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It's Wednesday.
It's a hump day.
Talking about a few things, man, we had a real good conversation earlier on the lunch break.
I was talking about, you know, the air sharing situation and Macklemore being.
pulled off of the tour.
We talked about Chris Brown being given an award and essentially have, I ain't gonna say they took it back from him, but they might as well had taken it back after the apology that they, well, one of the folks issued.
And we talked about a correctional officer who was online complaining about being
a registered sex offender.
You know.
And saying, oh, they can't find job.
They can't find this.
They can't find that.
And.
And they pregnant.
And they pregnant.
All right.
So.
That's what we talked about on the lunch break.
Today we want to talk about a few things on the extend out.
All right, we want to talk about a Question that we have underneath everything today.
All right So it's not like we just got a bunch of random stories today is one question asked I'm gonna ask it seven different times if we get through
All these segments, right?
Or topics.
I'm asking seven different ways, all right?
A family whose son was killed by police.
Kids who can't get to school because thieves hit the same bus lot twice in a year.
Residents fighting a billion dollar utility.
over their electric bill.
A DA whose license got suspended, then unsuspend it in literally one day.
And finally.
One story where.
You know, the regular people actually won outright.
So this is where we go.
We are going to move.
From the stories where accountability is still unresolved.
To ones where it's actively being fought over right now and the one clean win.
So pay attention to which institutions respond to pressure and which ones stall out.
Hopefully you're following me trying to paint a story here.
Try and tell a story here.
OK.
Try and paint a picture.
Picture patterns.
A picture of, you know, a city.
County, whatever you want to refer to it as.
Whatever you want to refer to it as.
We've had numerous conversations on the lunch break on this platform, whether it was filling in for the grapevine.
You know.
And a lot of them has been based in accountability.
Who's accountable?
So that's what we're talking about today.
Seven.
Different stories one week.
Who holds.
Power accountable when something goes wrong.
And who actually wins when people push back?
Some of today's stories are, you know, still open wounds.
People still grieving.
Families still want answers.
One story has a real clean win for regular residents.
And I want y'all to just pay attention.
Just pay attention to which is which as we go.
All right.
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That's the number to dial.
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You could text that number as well.
You could text that number as well.
We read your text messages.
I got to get back into my.
The text of it all.
Who's accountable?
All right.
Not our typical accountability story, though.
Because we've had the accountability.
discussion before and as it related to teens and parents and environmental.
We had a lot of discussions about accountability.
This is a different type of who's accountable I'd like for us to really think about.
The seven stories today, if we get through them all, right?
We want to talk about the 22 year old on national.
All right.
1400 block of West National Avenue.
We want to talk about that.
Then we want to talk about
The bus lot getting hit again.
Who's accountable?
Kids paying the ultimate price twice.
Not like to tell y'all who we fact check it from.
This was Fox six, Wisconsin, WISN, TMJ four.
Cross referencing.
The November twenty twenty five incident.
at the same address.
OK.
So we're going to talk about that.
Then we want to talk about Prentice Smith.
Family says execution.
The union says it's justified.
All right.
This is still a live disputed ongoing investigation.
So we're going to handle it with real care.
We're going to present both accounts as just accounts.
All right.
Because information is still coming out, but we want y'all to be aware.
We want y'all to be aware.
Go talk about it.
Then we want to talk about flock cameras only 4% of officers trusted now It's been a whole lot of different municipalities to You know they have just ended their contracts completely it's been a few of them now I'm by the time we get to that I'll pull that up and share
those municipalities that has decided to end it with flock.
But MPD chief Jeffrey Norman.
Publicly called the department's newly restricted flock camera policy a compromise this week.
So we don't get into that.
We don't get into that.
And the other story I want us to consider is the same question throughout all the story lines.
We energies wants 14 percent more.
14 percent more.
Residents say they're already squeezed.
I asked these questions about the energies and it's the only company we have.
So, you know.
Start there with that.
We worried about data centers raising our energy.
What if it's being raised right now that we don't even notice the impact?
I'm just asking questions.
What if we being pre-priced in?
Then if we got time, we want to talk about the DA whose license.
was suspended for exactly one day and got it back.
Man.
I'm going to assume they have the complexion for the protection.
I'm assuming.
And then it was a win, y'all.
It's not a Milwaukee win, but it's a win for humanity, for citizens.
Walker Shaw Seniors actually beat City Hall.
So we're going to get into that, right?
And we're going to close with what connects all seven of these.
Stories, OK?
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
When we come back.
We'll get right into it right here on the award winning one on one, seven, the truth.
What up y'all welcome back welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth We are live only from the American family insurance studios Man, I was trying to beat the camera Did a terrible job at it a 3 3 2 1 2 people like that type of stuff Oh, they like that in action.
They it seems like behind the scenes.
I could dig it.
I could dig it
That's the number to call y'all a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is the number to dial It's not like you was talking bad about anybody during break or anything.
Yeah, I was just going over my notes.
So Talking about my notes They could hear me.
They couldn't hear me.
No, sometimes people try to read lips Can't read these lips Maybe that should have been the contest
that we did for Bryson Tillard.
Read my lips.
Oh, I guess how people listen to on the radio can hear.
Don't forget he works out on radio
Yeah, straight up.
All right, y'all.
I just gave if you just joining us, I gave you all the rundown of what today is going to be about.
We got a seven story situation, but one common thing that ties it all together.
A 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is the number to dial.
All right.
A 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is the number to dial.
You could text that number as well.
Let's get into it.
A 22 year old lost their life on National Avenue.
No answers yet.
Fact check confirmed via WISN and Urban Milwaukee's Police Department press release.
Milwaukee police are investigating a fatal shooting on a 1400 block of West National Avenue.
So just before 10 p.m.
on Sunday, September 13th, the victim was 22 years old, pronounced dead at the scene.
And as of today,
Police are still seeking unknown suspects.
No arrests, no named person of interest, no stated motive.
Anyone with information is being asked to call 414-935-7360 or Crime Stoppers at 414-224-
Tips.
All right.
So right here is the clearest form.
Clearest example right now of accountability that hasn't even started yet.
No suspects, no answers, just a family waiting.
And obviously, we know a lot goes into.
Figuring these type of things out.
All right.
Is the starting point.
Of every other story on today's show.
And eventually it connects back.
To in some way.
Trust in institutions.
To actually solve.
an answer for what happens to people.
Putting our trust in institutions.
To actually solve.
An answer.
For what happens to people, people of our city, our county, our state, whatever.
OK.
Or over 51% of our homicides go on, sir, unsolved.
51%.
That's kind of scary.
You got 50 50 percent chance that something happened to you that.
It won't figure it out.
It won't solve it.
Fifty one percent.
I'm going to try to make sure I pull that up to have the actual.
correct firm numbers on that.
But it's something to think about.
A lot of situations.
Go unsolved with no conviction.
No justice being served to the families.
Now, I don't know what we could blame that on.
I know some folks have said it to be not enough resources, not enough police.
We've been hearing that for a long time.
Not enough bodies to actually put out in the streets and protect, serve.
Make communities feel safe.
Says no, no, not enough updated.
Technology.
That's why we dealing with flock now and all of these other things and.
All these other technologies.
That other places have where they can scan your person.
You don't even know about it.
a lot of unsolved crimes.
If you was listening to the lunch break today, I heard Sherwin talking about the value of neighborhoods, of just the quality of life going down in certain areas because a lot of times justice goes unsolved.
No accountability handed out.
And I'm not just sitting here saying all the police department is to blame for, you know, not solving more than 51% of its homicides or whatever.
I'm more so saying 51% is a lot.
If you lived in a neighborhood with 51% of the situations,
Were unresolved what does that do for your?
Comfort level of living in the area Your quality of life Say the value automatically just goes down People want to move out now I don't want to go live over there
I don't want to go live over there.
He was talking about Sherman Park area today as well.
He's like he's lumped in to the Sherman Park.
Conglomerate or neighborhood.
He's like, I don't know if I want to be associated with Sherman Park.
He recalled.
The uprising.
Unrests.
Said he could smell the smoke.
He could smell the smoke.
When the city was burning from his house, Sherman Park area.
He's like, you know, that's too close.
I don't want to be close to Sherman Park anymore.
It's a lot going on.
perception of neighborhood.
It makes me ask a broader question.
Maybe this is by design.
Why?
The city is continuously shown in a negative light.
I remember I put a challenge out to, I'm sure, and fell on deaf ears to the news stations like I challenge all to report
100% all positive news for one day.
Week.
But see, they thrive.
Off of uplift in the negative.
They feed off of it.
Look at the comment section.
In any of these news outlets, when it comes down to the murder of somebody in our community or somebody lost a life or reckless driving with somebody, go read the comments.
Have you ever read the comments on a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel post?
Or Fox six post.
Or Channel 12 post.
Have you ever read the comments?
Uplift the negative.
Community tore down.
When we come back, y'all, we'll get into the next topic that we're going to tie everything to.
The bus lot got hit again.
Kids pay the ultimate price twice.
Don't go anywhere.
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A lot of y'all was born thin, the fit of my pig with a mark.
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Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one, 7 of Truth.
Live from the American family and sharing studios, it is your boy Ray Nitty Prince of the city, man.
I think I'm gonna really bring that one back, man.
I used to say that when I was like 16, 17.
It's like I'm too old to be a prince.
I don't know.
More like a... Damn!
I am.
Yeah.
More like ank.
Yeah, like, what's what's the the royal uncle?
Is he like a. What was Littlefinger in a game of thrones?
The hand of the.
Of the prince.
I don't know.
A 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is a number to die, y'all.
A 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is a number to die.
All right.
A bus like got hit again.
Fact checked confirmed via Fox six WISN TMJ for and hood line I got a you too.
I got Google a headline in Cross-referencing the November 25th incident at the same address.
All right So over the weekend y'all thieves stripped the Cadillac converters the catalytic
converters from 37 to 38 school buses at the G.O.
at the G.O.
at the Go Right Way bus lot near South Timstreet and West Rawson Avenue in Oak Creek.
Leaving Oak Creek, Franklin and Franklin Public Schools students without regular transportation Monday.
I'm bringing this up because they don't just, this doesn't just happen in frankly.
It's like we don't hear about these things in the north side.
And I'm gonna tie it in to a Milwaukee experience here shortly.
All right.
Go Right Way moves spare buses in from facilities across the state to restore afternoon routes.
The district excused absences and tardies for affected students.
and warned the stop finder GPS tracking app might be temporarily unreliable by substitute buses filled in.
This is crazy.
Thirty eight buses like.
What are you doing?
I wonder if they had it on tape.
So here's the accountability failure worth naming.
Who's accountable?
I told you, it's going to be the.
Lasting question throughout all these segments today.
This is not the first time the exact same facility was hit in November 2025 when thieves stole converters from 26 buses.
Despite the first breach.
The lot security described by go right way as fenced and camera monitored.
So they got.
Cameras.
And it's fenced in, but they said it failed to stop a second larger theft.
Thirty eight buses versus twenty six less than a year later.
Oak Creek resident Demity Grubowski said the vandalism has happened numerous times in the area and argued the district and its contractor need a real plan, not just a reactive one.
Wisconsin has classified catalytic.
Converter theft as class one felony under state law specifically because of how widespread the crime has become.
We know about catalytic converters being stolen in Milwaukee now.
You can't leave it.
You leave your car parked on the street.
You praying to Jesus, Lord, just let my catalytic converter be attached.
when I get outside.
So the accountability question is not about the thieves, y'all.
It's about go right.
A company that gets hit at the exact same facility twice with the second theft being bigger than the first and has to answer for why the fix after November didn't hold.
We got some comments in the chat.
It said try armed security.
Something.
Has to answer for why the fix after the November didn't hold.
That's on the vendor.
The district pays to keep kids safe and on time, not just on organized crime.
OK.
Milwaukee, y'all know we get we got our fair share of people just breaking in vehicles stealing things Over and over again.
I remember we rented a U-Haul Okay, make this up Is a vehicle supposed to even move if the catalytic converter is taken from it I'm not sure We rented a U-Haul
Let me go to check it out.
I'm like, what is going on?
Something's seeing right.
Cut it on again.
Loud noise.
I thought something blew.
Sounded like a head gasket blew or something.
They come out, check it out.
Oh, man, we've been having problems.
They stole the catalytic converter off this one, man.
Let's see if we can get you.
So it's a problem.
In Milwaukee.
In Wisconsin, it sounds like because now it's a class one felony.
This computer keep trying to reboot.
What is wrong with it?
It's a class one felony.
We talking about accountability.
Plenty different times, y'all.
Plenty different times.
Two times.
two times and I know it's easy to be like, all right, that's, that's Oak Creek.
That ain't, that ain't nothing.
But I know I always get the notifications for the Milwaukee bus routes that be late all the time.
I haven't gotten too many this year so far is what I will say.
Haven't gotten too many this year.
But I know in the past it always been oh this bus driver is late.
This bus is Running late this This is late.
This is late.
Oh, we're gonna be late picking up these kids.
We're gonna be late doing this We're gonna be it was like a constant problem.
So it made me ask the question like okay, what?
What's always causing these late or are we just not being told exactly what's happening?
It's just a thought, just a question.
Just a question.
We're going to go to Prentice Smith.
OK.
I know we ain't going to get to finish it before we go to break.
All right.
If anybody know, be ivory.
If you know, be ivory.
Be Ivory Lamar.
Tell and reach out to us, man.
I would love to interview Be Ivan.
That is a story worth telling somebody that was heavy in the Milwaukee music scene.
We'll save it.
We'll save it.
I ain't going to tell the full story.
I would love to do that interview, though.
So I'm gonna work on that.
But fact checked, y'all.
Printed Smith, the family says execution.
The union says justified.
All right.
Confirmed via WISM, Fox Six and the Milwaukee Courier, all citing the same family attorney and police union statement directly.
All right.
So this is a live ongoing.
disputed ongoing investigation into what happened.
Milwaukee police shot and killed 23-year-old Prentice Smith on Tuesday, September 8th after officers tried to stop a vehicle connected to shots fired incident to a shots fired incident in Glendale.
Okay?
Police Jeffrey Norman said Smith and an officer exchanged gunfire after Smith disregarded commands to get on the ground.
Okay, we've heard this before.
We've heard similar stories before.
And before I go any further, you know, I want us to just mentally prepare ourselves.
We may know the answer.
We may think that we know what's going on.
Y'all may have been following this a little bit longer than I have.
All right?
But I feel like we could tell where this conversation could be leading to.
where you have police department saying one thing, family and the attorney saying another.
But when we get back, we're going to get into what Smith's family.
Who's represented by be ivory?
You know, we'll get into what they're saying right here on the award winning one on one, seven to true.
What up y'all welcome back welcome back welcome back It's your boy Ray nitty holding it down on the award winning one-on-one seven of truth, brother Z got me on the production of sound We live y'all from the American family assure studios We having a conversation Accountability where accountability lies
And we gon' tie it all together at the end, I promise.
We talkin' about Milwaukee Police shot and killed 23-year-old Prentice Smith on Tuesday, September 8th, after officers tried to stop a vehicle connected to a shots fired incident in Glendale.
Smith and other person fled on foot near 37th and Mineke, Police Chief Jeffrey Norman said Smith and an officer exchanged gunfire after Smith
Disregarded commands to get on the ground.
Let's go talk to Ile.
Ile, how you feeling, man?
Talk to me about this before we get into some more of what I was said about tears.
This is our story here.
Well, I think it's accountability on both sides.
But what I wanted to ask you, Mr. Needy, we know what's going on.
We are all about black excellence, black pride.
Only you.
Homer, Von Mays can do so much.
But the one question I don't understand, where is the black politicians who say, hey, I can't save you, but maybe there's another way.
They are in the position of black excellence and black pride.
Maybe they can reach one person and help turn a life around.
and I'm just trying to figure out, and I'm not throwing nobody up under the bus, but y'all have all these pity parties, just the way they stand there from 5-3-2-0-6.
But when you see people hurting, everybody's like, shh, shh, don't say nothing.
But then when the white people come, everybody is in the camera.
So how can you be about black substance, structure, and pride?
But you're sitting on your feet and like, oh, don't ask me.
You don't like when a person say if you need anything.
Let me know.
But really what they send is don't ask me.
I'm trying to figure out if we're all about black excellence, black pride, black standards, black strength, black power.
Maybe some of these politicians can reach out.
There's only so much y'all can do.
There's only so much some of these black mothers and black fathers and the Mohicans of the neighborhood can do.
So where are these black politicians at?
You don't even have, you can act like you don't care.
You can act like you care when you
That's all I'm asking the accountability falls on both of us But you gotta stop letting the black man to stop letting the white man win because you're smart you're bright and Intelligent why you not use your success and your mind power to take what he used against you and use against him?
Have a
Bye.
Bye That's a fair question
And that's why we're asking, where does the accountability lie?
Institutions.
Community politicians.
Where does it lie?
Who's accountable?
I think it's.
It's a little more complex when we're talking about black community, black excellence.
A lot of those things.
And I do think a lot of it starts within.
We could.
A politician could pass as many laws as they want.
They could pass laws and policies and create things to they blew in the face.
But if we don't take advantage of it as a community Or if we don't Do better as a community as humans not as not even community as an individual self if self betterment 1% better a day
I say this all the time if we would just start with our front door.
We would just start there, clean up our own yard in front of our own door.
We still got people that throw the whole bag of McDonald's out the window.
Still got people that drop a mattress into somebody else's neighborhood.
Still got people that dump.
in the alleys still got people that are dumped on vacant lots litter right outside their homes.
Black pride starts with pride itself.
Because if we don't even have any pride, what is.
Respectfully, what is the order going to do?
We could they could talk to they blew in their face.
But if we don't take the action to start holding ourselves accountable.
We asked where the parents.
We asked that question a lot.
We asked, where's.
You know, the community, where's the village?
The village can't even correct our kids no more.
Because we done program our kids that don't let nobody tell you nothing can't nobody tell my baby this I Love being born in a generation that I was born in Because we still was raised with and I ain't saying that Generation under us wasn't raised with no good values and morals.
I don't want anybody to take that as that but I was born in a generation where
We were still able to be.
Corrected by the neighbor.
You were still in the islands and the teachers could beat you.
You got out of line.
Come from the era where people still said good morning and good afternoon to each other, even if you was a stranger.
Come from the era where we saw the internet Evolve to where now it's AI we had dial up you had to put a CD in in order to get on the internet and hook up of landline Well, you ain't got landline phones no more damn there Got a comment on the YouTube
Says it all starts at home and branches out from there if your household is not For the betterment of the community Then it is to determine it is to the detriment of the community Yeah, I think it's a handshake bus I Think it's a handshake What if your household is in a in a contaminated area that was
left neglected because institutions didn't hold corporations accountable for spilling toxins and allowing people to breed it in for hundreds of years.
Hundreds of years.
What is that type of poison and look like?
We got some very intelligent audience members.
Very intelligent people.
I've heard people call in and share how trauma is transferred.
Educate me, educated me on the transferring of trauma.
Going back to slavery.
The pain.
that an enslaved mother endured.
Passed down through her womb, to her child, who took that trauma and was born with that same trauma.
They physically had to see their parents, their pops mutilated, beat, violence.
a community that was taught, shown the most extreme versions of violence against oneself.
I'm not making an excuse.
I'm just saying it's a handshake.
It's a collective thing.
Yeah, we could say where start.
We could say home is where start, but home is a part.
It's just my thoughts.
833-212-1017.
That's the number to dial.
Amazing callers educated me on so much.
I've learned so much just from being a part of this.
The comments people share.
The different ways people look at things which
Causes me to open my eyes and look at things a little bit differently as well that I may have not considered before This type of violence our community is experiencing this type of Tormoyle our community is experiencing this type of trauma.
This wasn't this wasn't no overnight pain
This was decades, centuries of handed down trauma, learned behavior, neglected environments, underfunded environments, underfunded neighborhoods.
Decades, centuries of it.
So it's easy to say it starts in the home,
if the home was built on toxic land, is it?
Or if the community was lied to and, you know, government allowed corporations to come in and poison communities.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
When we come back, we'll get back into segment number four, y'all, about Prentice on the award-winning 1017, The Truth.
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We are back on the award winning 1017, the truth live from the American Family Insurance Studios.
Yes.
We back at it y'all talking about Smith's family.
Represented by civil rights attorney B. Ivory Lamar, reviewed body camera footage within the legally required 48 hours and came away with a starkly different account.
It's interesting.
It's interesting.
Came back with a different account They say the video shows what they're calling an execution Not an exchange of gunfire I Don't think it's been released to the public yet And they specifically dispute whether Smith ever fired his weapon at all
This is interesting a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is the number of the dollar you familiar with this case this situation The factual dispute is concrete not just emotional The family says Smith was shot twice in the face
They said, the police union says the involved officer was shot in the leg during an actual exchange.
This is interesting because I heard about this.
I heard a police officer was hit and then they fired back.
That's what they put out.
But you know, we like to wait till we get all the footage, till we get all the information.
before we just jump to conclusions.
Because we know how easy it is to jump to conclusions when it comes to our community.
Shot twice in the face, y'all.
Police Union says the involved officer was shot in the leg during an actual exchange.
Lamar has directly asked.
Whether that officer's injury came from Smith's gun or was self-inflicted.
That's what I was going to ask next.
That's what I was going to ask next.
They had to run some ballistics or some.
Did they run ballistics?
Did they see?
OK, where?
They should be able to tell if his gun was ever discharged.
They should be able to tell that.
They asking.
Whether the officer's injury came from Smith's gun or was self-inflicted, and they're asking this because after reviewing the body cam footage.
which is legally required 48 hours within the 48 hours.
They said it came with a different account.
They're questioning if he ever fired his weapon at all at the officer.
What do y'all believe in here with this story?
I know we we wait until we we get all the information, but what are y'all guts saying to you?
What is your gut saying to you?
Accountability The factual dispute is concrete All right shot twice in the face y'all
And it's saying he may not have even fired his gun.
Was itself inflicted.
The Milwaukee Police Association's president, Alexander Ayala, pushed back hard on the family's characterization, saying they're entitled to grieve.
but not entitled to use the delay in releasing the video to fill the public record with false and inflammatory accusations.
And promising the released footage will show an officer who confronted an inmate, an immediate deadly threat.
I wonder when this video is going to come out.
So they saying when is everybody looking at the same footage?
Because his attorney is saying they questioned if he even fired his gun at all and if the officer shot himself.
Now you got the police association president saying and promising.
The released footage will show an officer who confronted an immediate deadly threat.
Per department policy, MPD has 15 days to release the body cam video publicly.
So we got maybe a little less than 10 days now at this point.
When did this happen
September 8th September 8th was today the 16th So maybe by the 30th we'll get the full video released to the public not that we want to see it, but we need to
See who was what's the truth here?
15 days to release the body camera video publicly the Wauwatosa Police Department is leading the independent investigation as required under Wisconsin law for officer involved shootings That review has not concluded Okay
So this is today's Royce unsolved accountability story that we have two completely.
Incompatible public accounts of the same recorded event.
That's why are they watching the same video?
Why is MPS calling me?
Call his mama, please.
The attorney's questioning that he ever fires gun is a self-inflicted one.
The association is saying.
When they release it, they will promise it will show.
Promising it will show.
That's a that's a strong statement.
I wonder what they promise and it will show.
from people who have all already seen the video while the public waits 15 days to see it for themselves.
So is this worth asking?
Does a 15 day window serve transparency or does it just give both sides two weeks to shape the narrative before anyone else can check to tape themselves?
I find it funny that they could like, well, let's not.
I don't find funny that is.
I could believe that they would say that they see a total different.
Account.
But I feel like we're getting ready to see.
This guy may have not.
Well, we might see is there may be.
a weapon involved.
Because they don't sound like they saying he didn't have one.
They're questioning that he even ever fired his weapon.
Accountability, y'all.
Accountability.
I promise we're going to get through this.
It's going.
We're gonna wrap it all up and make it make sense, okay?
I promise we're gonna make it make sense.
Let's go to the lines.
Miss Charlotte, how you feeling?
You live on the truth, 10170.
I'm feeling wonderful.
I like listening to your show because you bring up really relevant, you know, you know, things that happen in the community.
But I think what we have, black people need to acknowledge that this is a cultural deterioration.
And we have to acknowledge that a lot of this stuff is self-inflicted.
I'm not saying the police should not be held to any accountability.
I'm saying the boy had a record.
And I'm saying we've got examine each day.
How do we get where we are?
And the bigger question is how is it so easy for black men to kill each other?
That's what I want to know.
That's what I want to examine.
What about our culture says it's so easy for you to get bumped in a club and then kill somebody?
That's the bigger thing.
When it gets to the police point, you're right.
There's social justice issues that need to be examined and make sure that you're fairly at the same people of other complexions.
But we need the diamonds to call for one number one.
We were never bought here to do well.
So never forget that.
And young people don't really understand that.
The next thing is how self-inflicting we are.
And I think that's why we have to examine Milwaukee.
We are self-inflicting.
There's no way my son could shoot somebody and me to support him.
There's no way.
We have to do it with more meditation and self-examination about what goes on.
We can't control the outside forces.
We can change our culture in a community.
That's what we have to do.
Absolutely.
It can't be so easy for people to shoot because they're bored, because they're angry, because it's the ex-boyfriend, because the ex-girlfriend, baby mama.
And the last thing I'm going to say is we have to examine the idea that lack of commitment in producing children doesn't affect our community.
It really doesn't.
You know, I know you come from, you married somebody.
And people like me want to probably think that doesn't matter.
Yes, it does matter.
You chose your children is commitment.
So that's what I'm saying.
Thank you, Miss Charlotte.
Thank you.
When we come back, we're going to get into Miss Charlotte's conversations and the things that she said.
I agree.
I agree.
But I just be wanting us to look a little bit deeper.
I want us to look a little bit deeper because we believe these stats.
We believe these stats about cognitive dissonance.
When we come back, y'all, we'll get into it.
Don't go anywhere.
This is the award-winning 1017, The Truth.
Y'all welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one, seven of Truth.
It is your boy Ray Nitty holding it down.
Brother Z got me on the production and sound.
How y'all feeling, man?
We talking about accountability.
833-212-1017, that's the number to dial.
Miss Sandra called in, shared her thoughts.
Shared her thoughts with us.
Miss Charlotte, I'm sorry.
Share their thoughts with us.
I agree to an extent, right?
I agree to it.
I wish we could have replayed what she said, but... We can.
Oh, we can.
Yeah.
Let's... Damn, brother Z. Let's replay what she said real quick, so make sure I don't misquote her.
But why are we getting that set up for the replay, right?
What if the home is placed in a toxic...
environment.
Literal toxic.
I ain't talking about just bad energy and people with attitudes.
Talking about poison.
All right, let's go ahead and play Miss Charlotte's comments.
Let's go to the lines.
Miss Charlotte, how are you feeling?
You live on the truth,
101-7.
I'm feeling wonderful.
I like listening to your show because you bring up really relevant, you know,
You know things that happen in the community, but I think what meet we had black people need to acknowledge at this a cultural deterioration and We have to acknowledge that Some of a lot of this stuff is self-inflicted.
I'm not saying the police should not be held to any accountability.
I'm saying the boy had a record
And I'm saying we got examine each day.
How do we get where we are?
And the bigger question is how is it so easy for black men to kill each other?
That's what I want to know.
That's what I want to examine.
What about our culture says it's so easy for you to get bumped in a club and then kill somebody?
That's the bigger thing.
When it gets to the police point, you're right.
There's social justice issues that need to be examined and make sure that you're fairly at the same people of other complexions.
But we need to damage the culture one number one.
We were never bought here to do well So never forget that and young people don't really understand that the next thing is how self-inflicting we are Mm-hmm, and I think that's what we have to damn in Milwaukee We're self-inflicting how many there's no way my son could shoot somebody and me to support him There's no way I
How easy is it for us to just take the life of another?
Human life has seemingly got no value in our community.
And that's why I ask this question.
Why is it so easy?
Why?
Why is it so easy?
to pick up a gun and shoot at anybody.
Why is it so easy to just commit?
Random acts of violence with no remorse, no thought between action.
No thought between emotion and action.
And I keep saying this, it's hard to think when you poison.
I keep challenging y'all.
Go on Wisconsin DNR's website.
Go check out these sites that are contaminated heavily, heavily congested in our communities.
We've had a whole show about environmental injustice and the effects, the impact that these toxins.
that our communities breathe in every day, the impacts that it has on people being hyperactive, not making good decisions, cognitive dissonance.
So it may be a little easy to make a terrible decision or a little easier, rather, to make a terrible decision if you are operating
from a place of poisonous.
Flyer John calling it.
Let's talk to Flyer John real quick.
Flyer John, what's up, boss?
How you feeling?
What up with you, man?
I can't complain.
Don't cuss on this radio either, Flyer John.
I see you outside the window.
What's up
with you?
No, I'm outside.
Come on, you sell this gospel play.
And only that, I mean, and you see what's on my shirt man,
Let me come in and promote this gospel
We got processes Flyer John.
You you on the show right you we looking at you right now the people can see you right now if you have you and YouTube Shed is YouTube flyer John called the middle of the show.
We talking about some serious and he trying to promote the gospel show Say what's up to the people flyer John?
What's up y'all?
This is flyer John.
I am promoting the gospel show that's coming up October 24th this Saturday
That's 76 and good hope.
promo.
And this is going to be a nice job for the play.
We can't hear you no more flyer job.
You don't walk the way and I don't even understand how you did that.
The further you got away from the window, the lower your voice got.
Shout out to Flyer John, man.
Appreciate it.
Flyer John done pulled up a chair, sat down now.
Flyer John done pulled up a chair and sat down outside the window.
Make sure if you see Flyer John grab a flyer from him.
Tell him pull up, man.
There's some time to get some ads in before this Saturday.
But appreciate you calling in, Flyer John.
Flyer John ain't gonna tell you about that time I out-flyered him.
We was working on my campaign fly down that man.
You're moving too fast.
I'm trying to get to me.
I'm like, John, you're supposed to be fly John.
I'm fly Ray out here.
But.
What if, y'all, let's get back to it.
If you operating from a space of being poisoned.
I'm not making excuses.
I'm telling you the exact information you could go on DNR's website.
I know that ain't Flyer John.
I call it back.
You could go on DNR's website.
We got you Flyer John.
We got you.
My dog.
You could go on Flyer John website.
Oh gosh.
You could go on the DNR's website.
And look at these.
These sites, put your address in.
Do that.
Put your address in.
And look at the contaminated sites that pop up.
Then I want you to do some more homework and go look at the impact.
Of what exposure to a lot of these different chemicals have on humans.
And then after you see the impact that it has on humans cross examine it.
To the behavior of our community.
I'm not a doctor.
I'm not a scientist.
I'm not an environmentalist.
I'm not anything.
I am just a rapper.
Let some people tell it.
I'm just putting common sense information again.
If they say exposure to things like petroleum, TCE, all of these different PFAS and stuff like that.
Creates hypertension, hyperactivity, poor decision making, low motivation, low education.
Aggressive behavior, behavioral problems.
Do we believe that?
Or do we not believe it?
Because if we don't believe it, then that's a different thing.
But I say I believe it because why would Medical College of Wisconsin put that type of data out?
Why would DNR have this data on its website?
Then I Know brothers he gonna be tired of it.
This is why I ran for office because they Evacuated our building and said all all of these terrible health hazards while allowing the
apartments in Bayshore to stay in way higher numbers.
And we had areas in the development that did not have exposure.
So I ran for office.
So I could tell my story about it so the people could be informed.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
When we come back, I'm going to tell y'all how that story
went.
What
It's your boy Ray Nitty Prince of the city.
You already know.
I bring a lot of these little things back I used to do when I was 16.
We live y'all on the award winning one on one, seven of Truth, American Family Assurance Studios.
We're talking about the accountability story.
You know, and we went through...
What family is calling the execution of their family member?
But police union is saying.
Justified.
Miss Charlotte was saying how much self-inflicted.
Pain where we continue to cause.
I'm asking a question of.
Do we know?
Are we aware of the conditions that we're operating in the poisons?
Yeah, I'm not saying poison to be like Symbolic it's literally poison Okay But we're gonna keep it going because we're almost out of time All right
Accountability, FLOT cameras, only 4% of officers trusted now.
Fact check confirmed by CBS 58, WISN, Urban Milwaukee and the Wisconsin Examiner.
All right, we've covered the FLOT cameras.
Chief Jeffrey Norman again, NPD, publicly called the department's newly restricted FLOT camera policy a compromise this week.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley separately issued his own directive the same day, limiting flock use on county property and ordering the sheriff's office to adopt new accountability standards.
The real number worth sitting with.
Of MPD's 1,561 sworn officers, only 67, roughly four percent.
Six seven.
That's how that goes.
We'll retain any access to flock data going forward.
I feel like we got a name to 67.
We need to know the 67 people who could be tracking where we at.
We got another 67 on this corner.
Doesn't feel better.
Sure.
67 people versus 100, 1,500 to 61.
Sure.
But what if 50% of that 67 is still, you know, not cool people?
Or what if some of those people just flock people for their friends?
Are you a friend, Flocker?
Flocking for your friend?
Am I supposed to believe that that won't happen?
Hey, bro, look this, look this chick up for me, man.
She was talking crazy.
I'll flock her.
I do it too, matter of fact.
Four percent, y'all.
Only four percent will retain access.
That's how far this had to be scaled back after two officers were criminally charged with personal misuse, including a detective who used the system to track a woman he was involved with.
This is a detect, not just regular police.
The ACLU of Wisconsin welcomed the changes, but says there's only one part of the solution.
Norman himself acknowledged the changes add real friction.
to frontline officers workflow, but called it better to have a compromise and still be able to use it.
You didn't have to use it before.
How did you... 51% go unsolved.
Are they gonna say, oh, we at 60% now because of the camera?
No, we already talked about the lady who got...
wrongfully stopped and guns drawn on her on the highway.
Bea Ivory represent her too.
He getting that money, man.
He getting them cases, ain't he?
I ain't pocket watching.
But he getting them cases.
So this didn't happen in isolation.
Milwaukee County Council members sent a formal letter August 25th demanding additional oversight, sending a September 30th deadline and warning that 2027 budget funding for the entire program would be scrutinized if changes weren't made.
It should just be cut.
I'm sorry.
Just, just do your job.
Do your job.
Actually do police work.
Use those skills.
All right.
So this is a direct link to segment four.
This is what accountability actually looks like when it works under pressure, though, under the pressure of the people.
Misuse got exposed, elected officials applied real deadline pressure.
Because they say, hey, we did the funding just won't all right They made them changes But now it's a different pressure that's about to happen If I had to guess because now you got like O'Connell walk a couple other counties that has just Got rid of it completely ended the contract Should we just end our contract as well, I think so
I think it's right.
Just end it.
We don't need to be figuring out how to give.
Oh, I saw you.
We don't need to be figuring out how to be spending way more.
As a matter of fact, how much money we spending on the flock system?
That's what I want to know.
How much money flock costing us?
What the flock?
Flock is the cost cost of flock.
I said, I ain't say it.
I didn't say the FL was there first.
Chill out, Benjamin.
Benjamin, like Mr. Burns right now, just smithers.
Wait till this call.
How much is flat cameras costing us?
I need to ask.
How much is flat costing?
Milwaukee for the contract.
Yep, y'all hear me read while I type.
I don't type fast, like look, I put munched, not much.
They brought up much lower.
How much is flock crossing?
I'll figure that out a little later, yo.
But to continue.
Milwaukee County spent
156,000 on its contract for flock safety surveillance cameras.
This is up from the $142,000 the county spent.
That's annually.
Say that again.
Is that annually or that's like.
That's what we spend a year.
Yeah.
Um, yep, the 48 cameras.
Yep.
Uh, and the contract expires December of 2026.
further litigations.
Says County Executive David Crowley announced he does not plan to renew or refund the contract for 2027 amid privacy and misuse concerns.
Right.
wait that long.
Let's just get rid of them now.
I mean, that's just any breach of contract.
You're gonna have to pay something or it's gonna cost you something more to get out of the contract versus just letting the contract expire
But it's like we like getting a new phone we in third quarter right now September October November December three months
So we can wait three months.
I'm willing to bet if we breach the contract and got out it would probably cost us 10 times as much It would probably cost us a million dollars To get out of the if we breach the contract whether that's lawyer fees and all these other things All right, let me um Let me move it along.
We're moving on to we energies now.
All right
We energies is requesting the rate increase that would raise a typical resident bill by about see it's funny, right?
Because they do it piece by piece by piece.
So it say by about $13 and 35 cents a month in 20 27 and another $8 and 69 cents a month in 20 28 so roughly $22 per month a 14 percent total increase
And the sixth, six, y'all, one, two, three, four, five, six, rate hike for We Energy customers since 2020.
What is going on?
What is going on?
At the public hearings held at Marquette University on September 1st, two sessions.
1 p.m.
and 6 p.m.
Hours of public testimony ran overwhelmingly against the increase.
I would assume so.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
When we come back, we'll get more into this We Energy story right here on the award-winning 1017, The Truth.
What up y'all welcome back welcome back to the award-winning 1017 the truth to boy Ray nitty holding it down Prince of the city you already know me brother Z got us on the production and sound live From the American family insurance studios.
I might finish this off in my accent Spice
to the end of the segment.
So we might not make it through the whole thing.
But we're going to make it through some of it by bombing name in here again.
He pressing we energies at least.
I could take that.
All right.
So.
Residents say it's already a squeeze.
We said an additional.
This is a six raise, y'all, six raise, six raise.
Six.
I'm not mistaken said our our energy rates has went up more than 50% like the police Public hearing our kit two sessions by Cheryl Parsons 76 on a fixed income told the PC the PSC she's already absorbed the multiple increases in recent years Abra Fortson and Lindsay height resident.
We are in dire conditions
When people have to choose between basic living, necessities, and paying energy bills, it is stressful.
Antonio Butts of Walnut.
We had them on this count.
We had them on our show!
Let's say that name sounds familiar.
We had them right here.
He was sitting right over there.
So... Don't say the truth.
Don't be giving up.
Putting y'all up on the truth.
We put y'all up on the truth early.
Okay?
This is what we do.
This is what we got going on.
Check what he's saying.
Antonio Butts of Walnut Way Conservation Corp, an organization actively building renewable energy infrastructure in the neighborhood, helped organize a rally outside We Energy's headquarters the same morning.
He talked about it on this show.
We had a lunch break.
Don't talk about it.
No, it wasn't lunch break.
It was the extent, though.
Was the extent, though, that we had them on?
This is interesting.
Bob Bowman.
I guess I gotta say something good about him right here.
Bob bombing directly pressed.
We energies representatives on the profit question.
Isn't one of the goals of a shareholder owned utility to generate profit for shareholders and we energies rep confirmed that's part of being a privately held company while Sierra Club, Wisconsin's
Cassie Steiner separately noted we energies is already reporting more than a billion dollars in annual price.
We want peace.
We want some We want a piece of every blood clotting.
We want it.
I gotta have peace, Meach We don't got no way of generating revenue in the city They raising everything and the city ain't saying we need a percent
Who doing a negotiation for on our behalf?
It can't just be raised the taxes raised the taxes every time All right We need a piece of it if data centers coming in we need a piece of we want shared revenue We energies.
I'm sorry.
We need a piece of the shared revenue.
You're not gonna raise six times Since 2020 and all we got it is a higher bill because of it
No, we need a piece.
Whoever negotiating on behalf of Milwaukee, if we don't lead with profit sharing.
Well, I want you at the table negotiating on our behalf.
We gave up our hospitality taxes to the Wisconsin Center District.
So all of the taxes from hotels, taxis, all of that goes directly to Wisconsin Center District.
Cool.
They build the Barrett Center and kept all of those things up.
But we didn't even negotiate us keeping 2 percent.
Not even one.
But anyway, we energies counter argument about 650 million of the request covers already approved when the solar and battery projects beginning to serve customers.
The company says data centers, not residential customers.
We'll cover the infrastructure costs built specifically for them data centers need to pay us to Who's negotiate data centers already here?
We need a piece of the profit share All right, the public comment period stays open through Friday September 18th meaning residents listening right now still have a real-time sensitive window to weigh in before
The PSC decides expected later this year with an approved rate starting January 20 27.
So.
I don't know who approved these rates, but if it's up to the city, we should definitely should not be approving the rights.
All right, most of today's stories.
This one.
Has an open door today.
Anyone listening can submit a public comment.
To the PSC before we're talking about TI PSC All right before Friday worth repeating That deadline on air We got time for this one a DA lost their license Essentially lost his license and got it back the same day deputy DA Andrew
They call him Drew Burgoyne and a separate matter concerns.
Oh, no, solace.
Who's the person?
What's the person there?
Kenosha County DA Xavier Solace had his Wisconsin Laws license suspended on Monday, September 14th by the state office of lawyer, lawyer regulations for willfully failing to cooperate with one or more misconduct investigations.
The real problem since Wisconsin law requires district attorneys to hold an active law license to serve.
He got it back.
His license was reinstated the very next morning, Tuesday, September 15th after the underlying detail issues were resolved.
Went for seniors in Waukesha actually beat City Hall and Waukesha County judge permanently struck down fire and EMS fees imposed by the village of P walkie and Douseman ruling them illegal property taxes disguised as service fees and permanently bared Bard both villages from collecting them again.
We're gonna wrap this up
We gonna close it all, y'all.
We had seven stories, all talking about accountability, right?
We gonna land this whole show on this.
Every single story today, every last one of them, was about the same mechanism.
It was about power.
It was about whether it's a police department, a utility.
a bus contractor or DA's office facing a moment where it either gets held accountable or does it.
Sometimes that takes a lawsuit or recall petition.
Sometimes it takes two criminally charged officers before real change happens.
The flock situation.
Sometimes the accountability itself.
It's contested in real time by the people who lived it Princess Smith and his family and sometimes National Avenue There's no accountability yet at all because there's no answer yet No answer yet
Yeah, man, you see, you see what you're supposed to be.
On Wednesdays, we gonna show the, you know, tacos, you know, blow.
I need you to hop on board to Wednesday morning next week.
Chess out.
You feel what I'm saying?
So we gonna close this with a direct challenge.
Hey, man, whatever meeting, well, that's crazy.
That was crazy
no, I gotta play the music on that note
I did I
We had a good time.
Don't go anywhere.
Don't go anywhere, because I still got a little more melon in the show.
You feel me?
Feeling good, man.
I feel cute today, bro.
But, man, bro, I just want to say this while I do got you here, man.
Thank you for everything that you've done for me and my career as a rapper.
And
as
a human, you know, they like to label me as just a rapper, but just this rapper would like to tell you what huge impact you've had on his life, man.
So thank you, Homer Blow, for making sure I got paid from Apple Music.
Yes, sir.
Making sure I got my records monetized, the beauty, yes, and all of that.
Yes, sir.
You know what I'm saying?
And making sure.
when I ran for office that I stood on business.
There it is.
You didn't
That's right.
Who they
So
Babes, what are you doing?
What?
I'm just mowing the lawn.
No, it's blazing hot and dry out here.
Don't you remember?
Smokey Bear says.
Oh, it's on...
It's your boy Ray Nitty.
We are back on the award winning 1017, the truth live from the American Family Insurance Studios.
Yes.
We back at it y'all talking about Smith's family.
Represented by civil rights attorney B. Ivory Lamar, reviewed body camera footage within the legally required 48 hours and came away with a starkly different account.
It's interesting.
It's interesting.
Came back with a different account They say the video shows what they're calling an execution Not an exchange of gunfire I Don't think it's been released to the public yet And they specifically dispute whether Smith ever fired his weapon at all
This is interesting a 3 3 2 1 2 10 17 is the number of the dollar you familiar with this case this situation The factual dispute is concrete not just emotional The family says Smith was shot twice in the face
They said, the police union says the involved officer was shot in the leg during an actual exchange.
This is interesting because I heard about this.
I heard a police officer was hit and then they fired back.
That's what they put out.
But you know, we like to wait till we get all the footage, till we get all the information.
before we just jump to conclusions.
Because we know how easy it is to jump to conclusions when it comes to our community.
Shot twice in the face, y'all.
Police Union says the involved officer was shot in the leg during an actual exchange.
Lamar has directly asked.
Whether that officer's injury came from Smith's gun or was self-inflicted.
That's what I was going to ask next.
That's what I was going to ask next.
They had to run some ballistics or some.
Did they run ballistics?
Did they see?
OK, where?
They should be able to tell if his gun was ever discharged.
They should be able to tell that.
They asking.
Whether the officer's injury came from Smith's gun or was self-inflicted, and they're asking this because after reviewing the body cam footage.
which is legally required 48 hours within the 48 hours.
They said it came with a different account.
They're questioning if he ever fired his weapon at all at the officer.
What do y'all believe in here with this story?
I know we we wait until we we get all the information, but what are y'all guts saying to you?
What is your gut saying to you?
Accountability The factual dispute is concrete All right shot twice in the face y'all
And it's saying he may not have even fired his gun.
Was itself inflicted.
The Milwaukee Police Association's president, Alexander Ayala, pushed back hard on the family's characterization, saying they're entitled to grieve.
but not entitled to use the delay in releasing the video to fill the public record with false and inflammatory accusations.
And promising the released footage will show an officer who confronted an inmate, an immediate deadly threat.
I wonder when this video is going to come out.
So they saying when is everybody looking at the same footage?
Because his attorney is saying they questioned if he even fired his gun at all and if the officer shot himself.
Now you got the police association president saying and promising.
The released footage will show an officer who confronted an immediate deadly threat.
Per department policy, MPD has 15 days to release the body cam video publicly.
So we got maybe a little less than 10 days now at this point.
When did this happen
September 8th September 8th was today the 16th So maybe by the 30th we'll get the full video released to the public not that we want to see it, but we need to
See who was what's the truth here?
15 days to release the body camera video publicly the Wauwatosa Police Department is leading the independent investigation as required under Wisconsin law for officer involved shootings That review has not concluded Okay
So this is today's Royce unsolved accountability story that we have two completely.
Incompatible public accounts of the same recorded event.
That's why are they watching the same video?
Why is MPS calling me?
Call his mama, please.
The attorney's questioning that he ever fires gun is a self-inflicted one.
The association is saying.
When they release it, they will promise it will show.
Promising it will show.
That's a that's a strong statement.
I wonder what they promise and it will show.
from people who have all already seen the video while the public waits 15 days to see it for themselves.
So is this worth asking?
Does a 15 day window serve transparency or does it just give both sides two weeks to shape the narrative before anyone else can check to tape themselves?
I find it funny that they could like, well, let's not.
I don't find funny that is.
I could believe that they would say that they see a total different.
Account.
But I feel like we're getting ready to see.
This guy may have not.
Well, we might see is there may be.
a weapon involved.
Because they don't sound like they saying he didn't have one.
They're questioning that he even ever fired his weapon.
Accountability, y'all.
Accountability.
I promise we're going to get through this.
It's going.
We're gonna wrap it all up and make it make sense, okay?
I promise we're gonna make it make sense.
Let's go to the lines.
Miss Charlotte, how you feeling?
You live on the truth, 10170.
I'm feeling wonderful.
I like listening to your show because you bring up really relevant, you know, you know, things that happen in the community.
But I think what we have, black people need to acknowledge that this is a cultural deterioration.
And we have to acknowledge that a lot of this stuff is self-inflicted.
I'm not saying the police should not be held to any accountability.
I'm saying the boy had a record.
And I'm saying we've got examine each day.
How do we get where we are?
And the bigger question is how is it so easy for black men to kill each other?
That's what I want to know.
That's what I want to examine.
What about our culture says it's so easy for you to get bumped in a club and then kill somebody?
That's the bigger thing.
When it gets to the police point, you're right.
There's social justice issues that need to be examined and make sure that you're fairly at the same people of other complexions.
But we need the diamonds to call for one number one.
We were never bought here to do well.
So never forget that.
And young people don't really understand that.
The next thing is how self-inflicting we are.
And I think that's why we have to examine Milwaukee.
We are self-inflicting.
There's no way my son could shoot somebody and me to support him.
There's no way.
We have to do it with more meditation and self-examination about what goes on.
We can't control the outside forces.
We can change our culture in a community.
That's what we have to do.
Absolutely.
It can't be so easy for people to shoot because they're bored, because they're angry, because it's the ex-boyfriend, because the ex-girlfriend, baby mama.
And the last thing I'm going to say is we have to examine the idea that lack of commitment in producing children doesn't affect our community.
It really doesn't.
You know, I know you come from, you married somebody.
And people like me want to probably think that doesn't matter.
Yes, it does matter.
You chose your children is commitment.
So that's what I'm saying.
Thank you, Miss Charlotte.
Thank you.
When we come back, we're going to get into Miss Charlotte's conversations and the things that she said.
I agree.
I agree.
But I just be wanting us to look a little bit deeper.
I want us to look a little bit deeper because we believe these stats.
We believe these stats about cognitive dissonance.
When we come back, y'all, we'll get into it.
Don't go anywhere.
This is the award-winning 1017, The Truth.
Y'all welcome back to the award-winning one-on-one, seven of Truth.
It is your boy Ray Nitty holding it down.
Brother Z got me on the production and sound.
How y'all feeling, man?
We talking about accountability.
833-212-1017, that's the number to dial.
Miss Sandra called in, shared her thoughts.
Shared her thoughts with us.
Miss Charlotte, I'm sorry.
Share their thoughts with us.
I agree to an extent, right?
I agree to it.
I wish we could have replayed what she said, but... We can.
Oh, we can.
Yeah.
Let's... Damn, brother Z. Let's replay what she said real quick, so make sure I don't misquote her.
But why are we getting that set up for the replay, right?
What if the home is placed in a toxic...
environment.
Literal toxic.
I ain't talking about just bad energy and people with attitudes.
Talking about poison.
All right, let's go ahead and play Miss Charlotte's comments.
Let's go to the lines.
Miss Charlotte, how are you feeling?
You live on the truth,
101-7.
I'm feeling wonderful.
I like listening to your show because you bring up really relevant, you know,
You know things that happen in the community, but I think what meet we had black people need to acknowledge at this a cultural deterioration and We have to acknowledge that Some of a lot of this stuff is self-inflicted.
I'm not saying the police should not be held to any accountability.
I'm saying the boy had a record
And I'm saying we got examine each day.
How do we get where we are?
And the bigger question is how is it so easy for black men to kill each other?
That's what I want to know.
That's what I want to examine.
What about our culture says it's so easy for you to get bumped in a club and then kill somebody?
That's the bigger thing.
When it gets to the police point, you're right.
There's social justice issues that need to be examined and make sure that you're fairly at the same people of other complexions.
But we need to damage the culture one number one.
We were never bought here to do well So never forget that and young people don't really understand that the next thing is how self-inflicting we are Mm-hmm, and I think that's what we have to damn in Milwaukee We're self-inflicting how many there's no way my son could shoot somebody and me to support him There's no way I
How easy is it for us to just take the life of another?
Human life has seemingly got no value in our community.
And that's why I ask this question.
Why is it so easy?
Why?
Why is it so easy?
to pick up a gun and shoot at anybody.
Why is it so easy to just commit?
Random acts of violence with no remorse, no thought between action.
No thought between emotion and action.
And I keep saying this, it's hard to think when you poison.
I keep challenging y'all.
Go on Wisconsin DNR's website.
Go check out these sites that are contaminated heavily, heavily congested in our communities.
We've had a whole show about environmental injustice and the effects, the impact that these toxins.
that our communities breathe in every day, the impacts that it has on people being hyperactive, not making good decisions, cognitive dissonance.
So it may be a little easy to make a terrible decision or a little easier, rather, to make a terrible decision if you are operating
from a place of poisonous.
Flyer John calling it.
Let's talk to Flyer John real quick.
Flyer John, what's up, boss?
How you feeling?
What up with you, man?
I can't complain.
Don't cuss on this radio either, Flyer John.
I see you outside the window.
What's up
with you?
No, I'm outside.
Come on, you sell this gospel play.
And only that, I mean, and you see what's on my shirt man,
Let me come in and promote this gospel
We got processes Flyer John.
You you on the show right you we looking at you right now the people can see you right now if you have you and YouTube Shed is YouTube flyer John called the middle of the show.
We talking about some serious and he trying to promote the gospel show Say what's up to the people flyer John?
What's up y'all?
This is flyer John.
I am promoting the gospel show that's coming up October 24th this Saturday
That's 76 and good hope.
promo.
And this is going to be a nice job for the play.
We can't hear you no more flyer job.
You don't walk the way and I don't even understand how you did that.
The further you got away from the window, the lower your voice got.
Shout out to Flyer John, man.
Appreciate it.
Flyer John done pulled up a chair, sat down now.
Flyer John done pulled up a chair and sat down outside the window.
Make sure if you see Flyer John grab a flyer from him.
Tell him pull up, man.
There's some time to get some ads in before this Saturday.
But appreciate you calling in, Flyer John.
Flyer John ain't gonna tell you about that time I out-flyered him.
We was working on my campaign fly down that man.
You're moving too fast.
I'm trying to get to me.
I'm like, John, you're supposed to be fly John.
I'm fly Ray out here.
But.
What if, y'all, let's get back to it.
If you operating from a space of being poisoned.
I'm not making excuses.
I'm telling you the exact information you could go on DNR's website.
I know that ain't Flyer John.
I call it back.
You could go on DNR's website.
We got you Flyer John.
We got you.
My dog.
You could go on Flyer John website.
Oh gosh.
You could go on the DNR's website.
And look at these.
These sites, put your address in.
Do that.
Put your address in.
And look at the contaminated sites that pop up.
Then I want you to do some more homework and go look at the impact.
Of what exposure to a lot of these different chemicals have on humans.
And then after you see the impact that it has on humans cross examine it.
To the behavior of our community.
I'm not a doctor.
I'm not a scientist.
I'm not an environmentalist.
I'm not anything.
I am just a rapper.
Let some people tell it.
I'm just putting common sense information again.
If they say exposure to things like petroleum, TCE, all of these different PFAS and stuff like that.
Creates hypertension, hyperactivity, poor decision making, low motivation, low education.
Aggressive behavior, behavioral problems.
Do we believe that?
Or do we not believe it?
Because if we don't believe it, then that's a different thing.
But I say I believe it because why would Medical College of Wisconsin put that type of data out?
Why would DNR have this data on its website?
Then I Know brothers he gonna be tired of it.
This is why I ran for office because they Evacuated our building and said all all of these terrible health hazards while allowing the
apartments in Bayshore to stay in way higher numbers.
And we had areas in the development that did not have exposure.
So I ran for office.
So I could tell my story about it so the people could be informed.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
When we come back, I'm going to tell y'all how that story
went.
What
It's your boy Ray Nitty Prince of the city.
You already know.
I bring a lot of these little things back I used to do when I was 16.
We live y'all on the award winning one on one, seven of Truth, American Family Assurance Studios.
We're talking about the accountability story.
You know, and we went through...
What family is calling the execution of their family member?
But police union is saying.
Justified.
Miss Charlotte was saying how much self-inflicted.
Pain where we continue to cause.
I'm asking a question of.
Do we know?
Are we aware of the conditions that we're operating in the poisons?
Yeah, I'm not saying poison to be like Symbolic it's literally poison Okay But we're gonna keep it going because we're almost out of time All right
Accountability, FLOT cameras, only 4% of officers trusted now.
Fact check confirmed by CBS 58, WISN, Urban Milwaukee and the Wisconsin Examiner.
All right, we've covered the FLOT cameras.
Chief Jeffrey Norman again, NPD, publicly called the department's newly restricted FLOT camera policy a compromise this week.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley separately issued his own directive the same day, limiting flock use on county property and ordering the sheriff's office to adopt new accountability standards.
The real number worth sitting with.
Of MPD's 1,561 sworn officers, only 67, roughly four percent.
Six seven.
That's how that goes.
We'll retain any access to flock data going forward.
I feel like we got a name to 67.
We need to know the 67 people who could be tracking where we at.
We got another 67 on this corner.
Doesn't feel better.
Sure.
67 people versus 100, 1,500 to 61.
Sure.
But what if 50% of that 67 is still, you know, not cool people?
Or what if some of those people just flock people for their friends?
Are you a friend, Flocker?
Flocking for your friend?
Am I supposed to believe that that won't happen?
Hey, bro, look this, look this chick up for me, man.
She was talking crazy.
I'll flock her.
I do it too, matter of fact.
Four percent, y'all.
Only four percent will retain access.
That's how far this had to be scaled back after two officers were criminally charged with personal misuse, including a detective who used the system to track a woman he was involved with.
This is a detect, not just regular police.
The ACLU of Wisconsin welcomed the changes, but says there's only one part of the solution.
Norman himself acknowledged the changes add real friction.
to frontline officers workflow, but called it better to have a compromise and still be able to use it.
You didn't have to use it before.
How did you... 51% go unsolved.
Are they gonna say, oh, we at 60% now because of the camera?
No, we already talked about the lady who got...
wrongfully stopped and guns drawn on her on the highway.
Bea Ivory represent her too.
He getting that money, man.
He getting them cases, ain't he?
I ain't pocket watching.
But he getting them cases.
So this didn't happen in isolation.
Milwaukee County Council members sent a formal letter August 25th demanding additional oversight, sending a September 30th deadline and warning that 2027 budget funding for the entire program would be scrutinized if changes weren't made.
It should just be cut.
I'm sorry.
Just, just do your job.
Do your job.
Actually do police work.
Use those skills.
All right.
So this is a direct link to segment four.
This is what accountability actually looks like when it works under pressure, though, under the pressure of the people.
Misuse got exposed, elected officials applied real deadline pressure.
Because they say, hey, we did the funding just won't all right They made them changes But now it's a different pressure that's about to happen If I had to guess because now you got like O'Connell walk a couple other counties that has just Got rid of it completely ended the contract Should we just end our contract as well, I think so
I think it's right.
Just end it.
We don't need to be figuring out how to give.
Oh, I saw you.
We don't need to be figuring out how to be spending way more.
As a matter of fact, how much money we spending on the flock system?
That's what I want to know.
How much money flock costing us?
What the flock?
Flock is the cost cost of flock.
I said, I ain't say it.
I didn't say the FL was there first.
Chill out, Benjamin.
Benjamin, like Mr. Burns right now, just smithers.
Wait till this call.
How much is flat cameras costing us?
I need to ask.
How much is flat costing?
Milwaukee for the contract.
Yep, y'all hear me read while I type.
I don't type fast, like look, I put munched, not much.
They brought up much lower.
How much is flock crossing?
I'll figure that out a little later, yo.
But to continue.
Milwaukee County spent
156,000 on its contract for flock safety surveillance cameras.
This is up from the $142,000 the county spent.
That's annually.
Say that again.
Is that annually or that's like.
That's what we spend a year.
Yeah.
Um, yep, the 48 cameras.
Yep.
Uh, and the contract expires December of 2026.
further litigations.
Says County Executive David Crowley announced he does not plan to renew or refund the contract for 2027 amid privacy and misuse concerns.
Right.
wait that long.
Let's just get rid of them now.
I mean, that's just any breach of contract.
You're gonna have to pay something or it's gonna cost you something more to get out of the contract versus just letting the contract expire
But it's like we like getting a new phone we in third quarter right now September October November December three months
So we can wait three months.
I'm willing to bet if we breach the contract and got out it would probably cost us 10 times as much It would probably cost us a million dollars To get out of the if we breach the contract whether that's lawyer fees and all these other things All right, let me um Let me move it along.
We're moving on to we energies now.
All right
We energies is requesting the rate increase that would raise a typical resident bill by about see it's funny, right?
Because they do it piece by piece by piece.
So it say by about $13 and 35 cents a month in 20 27 and another $8 and 69 cents a month in 20 28 so roughly $22 per month a 14 percent total increase
And the sixth, six, y'all, one, two, three, four, five, six, rate hike for We Energy customers since 2020.
What is going on?
What is going on?
At the public hearings held at Marquette University on September 1st, two sessions.
1 p.m.
and 6 p.m.
Hours of public testimony ran overwhelmingly against the increase.
I would assume so.
Don't go anywhere, y'all.
When we come back, we'll get more into this We Energy story right here on the award-winning 1017, The Truth.
What up y'all welcome back welcome back to the award-winning 1017 the truth to boy Ray nitty holding it down Prince of the city you already know me brother Z got us on the production and sound live From the American family insurance studios.
I might finish this off in my accent Spice
to the end of the segment.
So we might not make it through the whole thing.
But we're going to make it through some of it by bombing name in here again.
He pressing we energies at least.
I could take that.
All right.
So.
Residents say it's already a squeeze.
We said an additional.
This is a six raise, y'all, six raise, six raise.
Six.
I'm not mistaken said our our energy rates has went up more than 50% like the police Public hearing our kit two sessions by Cheryl Parsons 76 on a fixed income told the PC the PSC she's already absorbed the multiple increases in recent years Abra Fortson and Lindsay height resident.
We are in dire conditions
When people have to choose between basic living, necessities, and paying energy bills, it is stressful.
Antonio Butts of Walnut.
We had them on this count.
We had them on our show!
Let's say that name sounds familiar.
We had them right here.
He was sitting right over there.
So... Don't say the truth.
Don't be giving up.
Putting y'all up on the truth.
We put y'all up on the truth early.
Okay?
This is what we do.
This is what we got going on.
Check what he's saying.
Antonio Butts of Walnut Way Conservation Corp, an organization actively building renewable energy infrastructure in the neighborhood, helped organize a rally outside We Energy's headquarters the same morning.
He talked about it on this show.
We had a lunch break.
Don't talk about it.
No, it wasn't lunch break.
It was the extent, though.
Was the extent, though, that we had them on?
This is interesting.
Bob Bowman.
I guess I gotta say something good about him right here.
Bob bombing directly pressed.
We energies representatives on the profit question.
Isn't one of the goals of a shareholder owned utility to generate profit for shareholders and we energies rep confirmed that's part of being a privately held company while Sierra Club, Wisconsin's
Cassie Steiner separately noted we energies is already reporting more than a billion dollars in annual price.
We want peace.
We want some We want a piece of every blood clotting.
We want it.
I gotta have peace, Meach We don't got no way of generating revenue in the city They raising everything and the city ain't saying we need a percent
Who doing a negotiation for on our behalf?
It can't just be raised the taxes raised the taxes every time All right We need a piece of it if data centers coming in we need a piece of we want shared revenue We energies.
I'm sorry.
We need a piece of the shared revenue.
You're not gonna raise six times Since 2020 and all we got it is a higher bill because of it
No, we need a piece.
Whoever negotiating on behalf of Milwaukee, if we don't lead with profit sharing.
Well, I want you at the table negotiating on our behalf.
We gave up our hospitality taxes to the Wisconsin Center District.
So all of the taxes from hotels, taxis, all of that goes directly to Wisconsin Center District.
Cool.
They build the Barrett Center and kept all of those things up.
But we didn't even negotiate us keeping 2 percent.
Not even one.
But anyway, we energies counter argument about 650 million of the request covers already approved when the solar and battery projects beginning to serve customers.
The company says data centers, not residential customers.
We'll cover the infrastructure costs built specifically for them data centers need to pay us to Who's negotiate data centers already here?
We need a piece of the profit share All right, the public comment period stays open through Friday September 18th meaning residents listening right now still have a real-time sensitive window to weigh in before
The PSC decides expected later this year with an approved rate starting January 20 27.
So.
I don't know who approved these rates, but if it's up to the city, we should definitely should not be approving the rights.
All right, most of today's stories.
This one.
Has an open door today.
Anyone listening can submit a public comment.
To the PSC before we're talking about TI PSC All right before Friday worth repeating That deadline on air We got time for this one a DA lost their license Essentially lost his license and got it back the same day deputy DA Andrew
They call him Drew Burgoyne and a separate matter concerns.
Oh, no, solace.
Who's the person?
What's the person there?
Kenosha County DA Xavier Solace had his Wisconsin Laws license suspended on Monday, September 14th by the state office of lawyer, lawyer regulations for willfully failing to cooperate with one or more misconduct investigations.
The real problem since Wisconsin law requires district attorneys to hold an active law license to serve.
He got it back.
His license was reinstated the very next morning, Tuesday, September 15th after the underlying detail issues were resolved.
Went for seniors in Waukesha actually beat City Hall and Waukesha County judge permanently struck down fire and EMS fees imposed by the village of P walkie and Douseman ruling them illegal property taxes disguised as service fees and permanently bared Bard both villages from collecting them again.
We're gonna wrap this up
We gonna close it all, y'all.
We had seven stories, all talking about accountability, right?
We gonna land this whole show on this.
Every single story today, every last one of them, was about the same mechanism.
It was about power.
It was about whether it's a police department, a utility.
a bus contractor or DA's office facing a moment where it either gets held accountable or does it.
Sometimes that takes a lawsuit or recall petition.
Sometimes it takes two criminally charged officers before real change happens.
The flock situation.
Sometimes the accountability itself.
It's contested in real time by the people who lived it Princess Smith and his family and sometimes National Avenue There's no accountability yet at all because there's no answer yet No answer yet
Yeah, man, you see, you see what you're supposed to be.
On Wednesdays, we gonna show the, you know, tacos, you know, blow.
I need you to hop on board to Wednesday morning next week.
Chess out.
You feel what I'm saying?
So we gonna close this with a direct challenge.
Hey, man, whatever meeting, well, that's crazy.
That was crazy
no, I gotta play the music on that note
I did I
We had a good time.
Don't go anywhere.
Don't go anywhere, because I still got a little more melon in the show.
You feel me?
Feeling good, man.
I feel cute today, bro.
But, man, bro, I just want to say this while I do got you here, man.
Thank you for everything that you've done for me and my career as a rapper.
And
as
a human, you know, they like to label me as just a rapper, but just this rapper would like to tell you what huge impact you've had on his life, man.
So thank you, Homer Blow, for making sure I got paid from Apple Music.
Yes, sir.
Making sure I got my records monetized, the beauty, yes, and all of that.
Yes, sir.
You know what I'm saying?
And making sure.
when I ran for office that I stood on business.
There it is.
You didn't
That's right.
Who they
So
Babes, what are you doing?
What?
I'm just mowing the lawn.
No, it's blazing hot and dry out here.
Don't you remember?
Smokey Bear says.
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