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You know, because, you know, in my opinion and in our opinion, right, we can't talk about
You know, we got to come together.
We know how to collaborate.
You know, we got to drop this.
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And for all of our brands to be able to say like, yeah, that's what y'all feel we need to
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes, you know
Bailey, you know, we were talking about some of the things and you have brought up a valid point.
I say, yeah, that's true about law enforcement and the lack of like the amount like we don't have.
Right.
All of the officers that we need to have in place.
If you notice, Bailey, each area of law enforcement.
are always hiring.
They're talking about recruiting.
Yes, the correctional officers.
Absolutely.
Always hiring.
And one of the things that I bring up when we hear those kind of conversations, I'm like, you know, for the people that have a problem saying, Well, where they at?
Where they at?
You got to become a part of the solution.
Yeah, they're looking for you.
Yes, they're looking for you to
Join the force and if you're talking about everybody is bad in your opinion, then why don't you become the solution,
Why don't you you know, I see so many stories and documentaries of different people that said that the reason they done this and they done that was because
They were tired of what they were seeing and they wanted to be a part of the change.
They wanted to be the change.
Right.
And so, uh, to bring the compassion, if you think that there's not enough compassion and you're a compassionate person.
over at
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
Right.
You know, just go over there and take the civilian.
Yeah.
And see what split second timing means.
How many would you have?
shot somebody innocent.
Would you shot a baby?
Would you have thought that somebody's phone was a gun?
But just to go through the whole real training of what law enforcement has split seconds to make a decision.
How well is your memory to where if they say, did you see what they had on?
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What's your truth on it?
So Xavier great morning.
Love you appreciate you if you could play that clip
MPD has to deal with all the calls around the city, plus every special event that's going on around, you know, in the city, too.
So it's just not enough to go around.
A follow-up now after the chaos in a couple of Milwaukee's entertainment districts over the holiday weekend.
A police officer was hurt on Water Street that led to an officer involved shooting early Sunday morning.
Another officer recovering after the blast from a firework knocked her to the ground.
on Brady Street.
There were multiple fights police responded to at Summerfest.
All of this happening on the same night.
Our Ryan Jenkins takes those concerns to the mayor and Milwaukee Police Association, who told him there just weren't enough officers to effectively patrol all of those areas.
Following all the weekend chaos across Milwaukee, I learned that the Milwaukee Police Department is roughly 200 officers short staffed.
A challenge as they try to cover all of the festivals and entertainment districts.
fights at the America 250 celebration at Summerfest, a firework blast knocking an officer to the ground, leaving her injured caught on camera.
And an officer involved shooting on Water Street after a police officer was struck by a vehicle, all happening late Saturday night into early Sunday morning.
What do you say to people who say they feel like there weren't enough officers out there?
I believe that they're right.
I mean, there's not enough officers out there.
We're about 170 officers short and about 30 detectives.
So we're about MPDs about 200 officers total short staffed.
Alex Ayala is the president of the Milwaukee Police Association.
He tells me patrol officers were pulled from every district across the city this 4th of July weekend to help cover downtown entertainment districts, officers working overtime, extending shifts on the holiday and putting them
in harm's way.
It's why he says the city should be doing more to help recruit a larger police force ahead of weekends like this one.
I wish the city would put in more efforts to getting more officers and the recruit classes.
They are prioritizing what I believe are other things instead of the safety and the staffing of everyone in the city of Milwaukee by having a fully staffed police department.
I took his concerns to Mayor Cavalier Johnson Monday.
Mayor, how do you respond to people who say maybe your office hasn't done enough to invest in public safety and the staff, the police department ahead of busy weekends like this one?
I would say that they're wrong.
I'm going through the budget right now.
the budgets that I have produced and present to the city council over the course of the last number of years have included maximum funding for the classes and recruits that we can have in our police academy in the city of Milwaukee.
The mayor doubling down on his stance that he wants a fully staffed police department and says the root of the violence and recklessness we saw over the weekend is a deeper issue in our city.
This is beyond, it's beyond a policing thing.
I don't want to put this at the feet of the police department.
Those folks who go down there and cause problems, they make a decision to do that, right?
They make a decision to go down to a traffic area, an entertainment area, and just show out and act silly, act stupid, right?
And that's not fair for anybody,
and it's wrong.
I did ask for an interview with Milwaukee's police chief Jeffrey Norman today.
I was told he's not available, but we'll be addressing these concerns during a press conference tomorrow.
Reporting in Milwaukee, Ryan Jenkins, TMJ four news.
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I ain't got enough officers.
I mean, this was I mean, this is not anything new.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Police across the country are actually facing the same type of situations.
Right.
So again, the answer to changing this is us.
Hello.
The capable people in our community, you know, and and.
You know, not to say that becoming a police officer is the easiest thing in the world, right?
It's not right.
But you got to know some good healthy portions of the law.
Absolutely.
and be able to pass these tests.
And so for those of you that think police officers just, you know, just have to take a physical test.
Oh, no.
There's a whole lot that goes with that.
I got one of my friends.
Shout out to Officer Yoshia.
OK, that's her first name, not her last name.
Anyways, she she really showed me, you know, what you can do.
you if you want to do something because she totally went and got the physical and the mental and everything she had to do to become a police officer.
I saw her from day one.
Okay.
All the way to the day that she graduated from the academy and when I tell you I've never been more proud of a good friend.
I mean she went through it all.
You know, we had an attorney friend shout out to attorney, please.
It helped her get the the law situation down.
You know, helped her study and everything.
And then we had our personal trainer shout out to Shannon all around helped her get her physical because there's a physical aspect of it too.
You know, there's a lot too.
You can't just be physically fit and become an officer.
You got to know things too.
You know, so for people to think that it's just a physical aspect and that's all you got to worry about.
Oh, no.
That part,
oh.
Right.
You
So
want
So now when they have to say, okay, you don't have to live within the city limits.
Oh, see them people don't care about our community.
Where hell?
you in the community and you saying that you don't want to do it.
So those positions need to be filled.
I'm not going to just say has to be filled.
They need to be filled in order to be able to say, okay, now we got enough of what we need to do an even better job at policing and keeping law and order in our city.
But when you got people that saying that they don't want to be, they don't want to be.
Then it's like, okay, it's like, Bailey, there were over a hundred or something people that volunteered for the birthday party for the kids, right?
We do it every year.
Yeah.
In my opinion, this was the worst year of volunteers not showing up for their scheduled times ever.
Really?
But you see, we still made it happen.
and
I agree with you guys.
If we as people don't want to come together and do something about it, other people coming in and doing the job, we need the protection of our city.
The kids are just at large doing all type of things.
I also believe that the summer fist should start looking into having like a age where if the kids are not with an adult, they shouldn't be able to
go because parents are not controlling their kids and they're getting mad at the police for shooting them and pepper spraying them and macing them, but we're not controlling our kids.
Yes.
Something has to be done.
But if they with an adult, I know, but if they're not with an adult, if they are not with an adult, because I think you could probably get in at 16 or something like that now, right?
Yeah, I think you can get in at 16.
My thing is, if you're not with an adult, you got to be 21 because you I don't care if they get mad at me.
They don't know how to act out here in these streets.
They don't know how to act.
And if you really think about it, that one fight that we saw, that seemed like it was outside the gates.
Outside the gates.
But your flags.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
So, yeah.
You're like, how you gonna do this?
You ain't even in it.
You know what I'm saying?
That reminds me of the beginning of Look at Me Now.
That's what I'm saying.
How you gonna do this?
You can't even get in.
I feel like sir, I know they're territorial.
Yes.
OK, I know they territorial, you know, county is one thing, cities are they.
But I feel like in some of these instances, especially like at the Summerfest situation, I know that's the city, but I feel like the county should be able to come in and do a little backup, especially since we short.
If we wasn't short, then I would be like, and I know this.
I know everybody got that.
I know they patrolling our parks.
No,
to
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Kevin, thank you for holding over.
You hear the conversation.
Love you, appreciate you.
What's your truth and what's your solution?
Well, you brought it up yourself.
You know, I mean, you the voice, you know, how long that voice, you know, gonna be around, you know, I appreciate you.
Change is inevitable for us.
We have to really
Look within not look without someone else taking care of us and What you saying it's so powerful.
I mean, it's just
It sets me up To the hope that I have for us, you know, it's just Really appreciate that I really wish to go further but I was
In prison for 16 years, eight months, and prison did change my life.
It took me away from the village, the village I was in.
And it really made me look at myself.
If you want to look at yourself, the people that do go there, you have to look at yourself and say this situation or this thing is not me.
You know, if there's drug dealing, if there's robbing people, you know.
But that's not you.
You're not hard.
You're soft.
Because as soon as you go to prison, you're going to stand up for count.
You're going to eat their food.
You're going to lay on their ugly pillows and the flat mattress and the sheets that other people laid on.
And you're going to wish you was at home.
You start to appreciate things.
But I was in there 16 months.
And programs helped me.
Church helped me.
Could get that to number one.
But.
When I went up for parole, they said, Mr. McLeod, why you want to do another drug program?
I said, well, I know I missed some in that program.
So they said, Mr. McLeod, why you want to do the program three times?
I said, well, I know I missed some in the last program as well.
So I want to do number three.
If I could have did programs every year, I would have did it.
I would have did it because, like I said,
The village teaches you and it molds you and it shapes you.
You got to get out there because they don't give us much.
And then the things they do give us, it's no good.
You know, the drug selling and just the gambling, the after hours and just all that lifestyle.
You know, we are survivors for some foremost.
And I want people to know that.
Change is it's there.
It's just you it's your mindset It's what you lock yourself into thinking that you you hard on you this you that you know you're soft Your person
and you got it and you got to get back to that and if there's anything I can do to help you You know if you see something I can do in the program that you I hope that you just keep going to that program We need that as a people these people know that we are
the people and they don't like us because who we are.
But we don't act like them.
We don't go and see a white person that just want to jump on them for nothing.
We're just not that type.
We're not evil like that.
I got a lot to say, but like I say, this is touching me, this topic, and I hope it goes somewhere.
really
That part, Kevin, and thank you for sharing your truth on the truth.
Um, eight, three, three, two, one, two, 10, 17.
But yeah, 16 years and, and, you know, yeah, just to say like, nah, I want to take it again.
Yeah.
You go to say, no, no, I need some more positive reinforcement.
Yeah.
You know, because some people do things superficially.
Like, you know what?
Yeah.
Okay.
I did it.
Yeah, but did you really get the lesson?
Yeah, did you get the lesson from it?
And this is why I say, like, no, this is your, this is what you get to watch.
This is your, uh, your online activity.
It's all the things that you're saying that may have
misguided you before into doing some of the things and making some of the choices that you made.
Yeah, absolutely.
So now
I'm just going to piggyback on what you was talking about.
First of all, thank you for taking my call and good
I'm just going to piggyback on that.
I was thinking about this years and years ago that you get this program set up boot camp.
So when they do get caught, it's automatic.
They got to go through that and they can't get out.
They got to go through the whole course and there should be guidelines.
You got to get your diploma.
And before you even get out of here, you must be certified in some whether it's welding, masonry.
carpentry, HVAC, and you must be certified and trained to actually leave there and go into the workforce.
Now, if you screw up, now, now if you screw up, I don't think it should be.
If you screw up, then you should go to the military.
Meaning you should leave that boot camp and go to the real
like the army or the Marines or something like that.
If you can't handle this program that I just described, you get out and do something, it should be automatic.
You go to the military and they're going to get you right.
If you ain't coming home, they're going to get you right.
You're going to come out of either there, you're going to come out of man or you're going to come out with something.
Cause they ain't going to let you just, it's got to be, we need to get control of this because think about it.
I'm 52.
And I'm pretty healthy.
So I'm a little long time.
We're gonna take care of it.
rate we got the rate we going on.
They don't have the skills to get up early in the morning and take care of grandmama and granddaddy.
Mm hmm.
They don't have those skills.
They don't want to get nobody a bath.
the patience.
Yep.
They don't even know how to go grocery shopping.
these are things life skills necessities like I said when we get all this over with who gonna take care of them
have the skills and then it's not all they fault I remember when they took music out of the schools I remember when they got rid of the physical it I remember
they start cutting I mean the real tech they had
You had to either learn how to weld or do all of that before you even graduated.
That's gone
So these kids don't have education.
That's what's killing them.
They don't have it.
Like when we was growing up, it was stressed.
And we missed the bus.
And we, I don't know if you know this, Homer, but if we missed that school bus, a lot of us were gone and walked to school.
Cause we know we
went back home.
It was a wrap.
find a way to get to that school, either walk hop on a bike or something.
It was, and we couldn't be around long folks.
We could not be sitting around, going folks in they
With none of that running in and out.
And now as you get older, you think about.
the simple don't be running in and out but that's discipline that's control because when you grow up i don't be ripping and running now
let people just be running in and out of my house
now you start understanding those lessons that they were given to you then that you didn't really understand but now you know
just isn't enough
Every time I see a news conference after something
when a little kid or something gets shot, there's always women, 10, 15 women there.
men?
Watch the video.
Watch any news coverage.
You very rarely see a man standing there.
There's all women.
There aren't any men in the community and the ones that are in the community, guess what they're doing?
They work in ten hours a day.
They're working to know the day and taking care of their family.
that's what the men are doing.
That's still it.
I don't hear it because a lot of people say, well, what a man.
And I just told you, we bust an IS that work every day.
We can't take care of your kids and our kids.
Somebody going to have to do something.
But that program will work.
But you have to stick to it.
Meaning once they get in here, they stop until they get it together.
like that.
I know, I know.
more point.
It's quick.
It's quick.
It's
They need to get the kids away from the parents.
That'll do it.
Thank you to change it.
Yeah, absolutely.
But again, like.
It's really got to be harsh like that.
I've never seen so much abuse in some of these uh seasoned citizen centers and nursing homes with these new CNAs and stuff like that.
They are they are abusing them.
They are abusing those
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I guess, uh, 88% of people say yes.
Boom.
So we want more homeless people and that's
No, no, no, no, we talk all at home.
You know what?
I was getting ready to go out without the acronyms because see, because this is what this is what tends to happen.
You know people want to try to act like the things that they are doing and putting us through ain't causing us pain and strife.
We're not losing loved ones.
We're not getting our lives changed because somebody shot you and now you gotta live with the trauma and the PTSD.
You live in a community that you're scared to go do anything because they're doing it.
Now we're concerned about, they weren't concerned about being homeless while they were letting themselves as toys are us adults or some of their children.
create havoc and death and destruction in our community.
So now we're supposed to be like, oh, but then they won't have a place to stay.
They moved a dope deal and husband or boyfriend in.
They let the cousin or the sons that's selling fentanyl from their apartments or they rented property.
So now we're supposed to be like, oh, but they're going, they didn't have to be.
You know so again when some people end up talking about but then there's gonna be your well They brought it on themselves.
You make your bed.
You're gonna have to lie in it that part
You sleep with dogs.
You're going to come up with fleas.
This is some grown, grown, grown stuff that they used to say.
You see with dogs, you're going to get
some.
So all of that.
But again, you can't create a toxic environment.
And then when it consumes you, they took my car and then you wasn't using your damn car.
You sold your EBT card.
So what the hell are you talking about?
Now I ain't got nothing.
Listen, it's going to be people.
at every book bag giveaway in the fall.
But that could be buying a book bags and school supplies right now for the kids.
Right now.
You can
You ain't got to wait until that happens.
But no, you'd rather do other things.
You'd rather do things that are not going to help take care of you and your family.
You're going to for personal gain.
You're getting some hairstyles that you know because you want to be a baddie for those and if the shoe don't fit Please don't put it on you want to be a baddie.
You know, we're gonna see your tumble weave laying on a street near us Coming to a street near us tumble weave So they get it done just to get it pulled out because they like to fight.
You got your little kids out there.
You got babies out there and you trying to fight with the baby on your hip You're trying to fight with your little kids watching you fight and you think they not gonna come up fighting Listen, I'm just saying I'll digress Bailey take it away.
Okay, so
But those of you that have been watching the story on the data center that they were trying to put in at Midtown, you should know that according to the Milwaukee Courier, shout out to the Milwaukee Courier, Drake Bentley put out a story.
that the Midtown Center development will move forward without the computing facility.
That's according to the Alderman for that area.
I want to know how people feel about that.
I heard the library is not necessarily a new library though.
Is that true?
Well, we have to
So all the other all the other elements that they were talking about for the area will still be there.
The family affordable storage.
and the library and those things will still be there.
It's just that the data center apparently will not be there.
So I think that is a win depending on how you look at it.
Probably not for the property owner, but for the area, if that's not what you wanted in there.
I thought it was suspect because they wouldn't.
Give all the information.
I mean they would not I was like, you know have somebody if it's no big deal Have somebody from the community Go to another one of your facilities And let them see yeah talk to the community there.
Is it good?
We straight,
I just want to make a comment.
Good morning.
Hall
morning.
I've been wanting to make a comment.
You've been speaking, but make it true.
about being Terry's toy that is.
I don't really take their resources, hit them in the pocket, because you don't want to discipline your children.
No, it's going too far.
I'm over it.
It's too far.
the pocket and see how things change
And the bootcamp, yeah, we need bootcamps.
Don't really.
But I just wanted to give you that comment, and I
Thank you.
And you guys have a great morning.
Thank you very much.
We appreciate you, Kiana.
But yeah, Bailey, I'm telling you, there has to be cause and effect.
People are not being held accountable to the degree that I feel that they need to be held accountable.
the ones that act like they don't know who it is, let that son or daughter end up getting shot by somebody that wasn't gonna have it.
You got what I'm saying?
Let them end up being killed while in the commission of a crime.
Now guess who pops up?
They didn't have to kill him.
He would get my medicine.
He was so
the
We don't have it.
So guess what?
This is what needs to happen and out for it You know, it may it may cost them in the end with less attendance or whatever But you know what you got an upgrade, you know, and sometimes that's that means pricing people out You understand what I'm saying
Remember, well, I'm just
Sometimes you got to upgrade.
Everybody can't come to your party on the lake.
Everybody can't go.
Everybody can.
Can everybody come to the family barbecue?
No.
All right then.
Well, everybody can't come to your party on the lake either.
And you gotta see you can only give out free tickets in certain areas.
Everybody can't get free tickets.
Everybody can't get.
I'm just saying.
You got to watch how and what you do because you can't invite.
It's unfortunate.
You can't invite everybody to your party.
Yeah.
Because everybody ain't coming in with a clip.
They want to go down there and kick it.
And to some people kicking it means going down, having a nice little drink, watching the bands was what you're supposed to be doing and socializing with your friends.
Other people that means let's go down here, find somebody to fight with and do the deal.
Okay.
And let's get kicked out.
Okay.
But Bailey, see, that's the part that I talk about is that now we're penalizing, in my opinion, a majority over a minority.
That's why I say it's, it's mutated because we are allowing a minority group of, and I'm not just saying that.
I'm talking about black people when I'm saying a minority group.
I'm saying it's a minority group of individuals that are on that.
But those minority groups, think about it.
If you've been listening to me on the truth and just in life in general, it changes things.
Things are going to change.
Something's going to change on Brady Street again.
They just made some changes.
It's going to be some more.
Something is going to change on Water Street again, even though they've done other things.
So.
But it's, it's a minority group that are making it bad.
Like there's people that should be able to go with their children and not have to be like, okay, I signed a document that I'm with my kids and all of that.
But because of this minority group, it creates changes that destroys the quality of life for everyday people.
All
Different parts of the country you see different things going on, especially with the teen takeovers You're seeing it in different countries all across the world and I think a lot of that has to do with social media You know But the fact is we can only control what happens here in Milwaukee or even try to try to control What happens here in Milwaukee?
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Bailey, I definitely wanted to end up reading the press release because you had talked about as we were pivoting the discussion, because this is one of the things we definitely wanted
to talk about this morning.
As we attempted to pivot.
Yeah, I know.
We got to get the truth what they want.
I'm just saying
we got to get the truth what they want.
Listen.
As a matter of fact, before I read this, let me go to the truth text lines and speak with Anita.
Anita, great morning.
Love you, appreciate you.
You've been hearing the conversation
What's your truth?
Good morning.
You for the brief delay.
No, I don't want to read that it right.
But no, I appreciate you too.
So, you know, the one of the issues I think we have is that we're talking about consequences and we're talking about, you know, holding parents accountable, right?
And
then we look at the kids just running amok, right?
My thing is.
Because I agree, if you're getting benefits, the key word is what is the definition of benefits?
If you're
getting benefits, there should be something tied that's beneficial.
And it's a gift.
A benefit is a gift.
So you have kids out here just cutting up, right?
And the parents not doing anything, right?
So then you have to act yourself.
What are you showing the kids?
If the parents are not receiving any consequences for being responsible for their 18 year old and under, which is the law?
You are required.
You are the guardian.
If you're the legal guardian of a child, then there should be consequences for you not doing your job that you are legally responsible for.
So with that, if the kids don't see the parents having
legal consequences or any consequences, then they're going to say, well, my mama let me do it.
Nothing happened to her.
My mama ran into school cutting up, cussed out my teacher.
Nothing happened to her for cussing out my teacher.
So why can't I cuss out my teacher?
Why can't I cuss out people on the street?
My mama just laid hands on somebody and was fighting in the street.
Nothing happened to her.
Why can't I go do what she's doing?
So kids learn by example.
So there has to be some level of consequence.
And if we not go actually utilize the term legal guardians, then we should come up with a whole different definition and a whole different structure.
But guess what?
That's not the case.
So we need to really focus in on if you're getting a benefit, what is a benefit and who is benefit team.
So.
On that, I'm going to let y'all pivot because I can keep going.
I love y'all.
I love you to nation.
Have a great day.
Yeah.
Thank you.
But yeah, that's just great.
Thanks.
And right.
And again, uh, the benefits.
So it's how here's a here.
Here's the, uh, the polar opposite of.
We're giving these benefits, right?
Right.
And we don't mind.
We understand.
We're like, yep,
you know,
some people, you know, need some help or in different areas.
And we get it.
We understand.
Yeah.
But now, how are you going to have your son or daughter
in
court talking about, you know, I had to, I was out here, you know, trying to feed my family.
I was out here trying to get some food, you know, hold on.
Right.
Your mama, your daddy.
Right.
Getting whole benefits.
Yeah.
For you.
So what do you
mean?
You were out here trying to get food.
You get subsidies for that.
You got that.
Well, you know, we try to keep a roof over our head.
They might be on section eight.
You know what I'm
saying?
So low income housing.
So we done that because they said that, OK, I only make this.
So I
can really only afford to pay this.
Right.
So we made it.
convenient and easy for you to do that but yet your son or daughter is talking about I'm out here man we got it you know we got to survive out here man we we hungry man I got brothers and sisters well that's what these benefits are supposed to be for so are you telling me that you're not getting the benefits you don't understand
are
you telling me that
Y'all not y'all don't have a place and a roof over your head.
Yeah,
because that goes against why we said, okay, yeah, you qualify for the benefits.
Right.
So again, is it benefiting us in the community as well as benefiting you and your children because that's what it's supposed to be about.
Now, if I know that me giving somebody a cigarette that already has lung cancer, I'm contributing.
Like, bro, you just want to go and smoke till you go and you fourth stage and you die, huh?
I'm not going to do that.
Right.
I'm not going to pay for your habit.
Right.
And you already in a situation where they're telling you, you got to stop.
You need to stop or you're going to die.
So now I feel like I'd be contributing to your death.
to continue to get you cigarettes and all of that kind of stuff.
I'm not going to do that.
Right.
So the same thing with our community.
You, you owe, you owe your community for saying, yeah, take some of my tax money.
And if, if some of my people in the community or whoever needs this money, here it go.
Here it go.
But what are we getting?
What's our return?
Do we get no damn return?
It's a problem.
Ray, after two talk texts like eight, three, three, two, one, two, ten, seventeen said.
I believe the parents losing benefits is not the solution to this problem.
Maybe some of us should be for adults 21 and over, or maybe some of us should just go away.
OK, well, that's not going to happen.
You know,
you know, you know, when when when people and now who said that?
Ray Ray, I believe I do believe that at some juncture, they are going to go with the 21 and up.
I get it.
I get it.
Cause it's like, you got to do something.
You can't just, you know, and, and,
or it may be 18 and up.
Yeah.
Well, it's just like the malls, you know, they, they tried doing it this way
and they're
like, okay, well now we got to do this.
And that's
what I'm saying.
And it's sad because it's a minority group that are doing it.
But
I mean, kids can still come in.
They just got to be a company by an adult.
Right.
So if you like 17 and under, then you need to be a company by an adult and it can't be.
Like your brother this is now
over 18, but if they are PWK's and They're bringing the trouble with them You still gonna have issues, but with I want to go back to Ray.
We would think that the parent would be there to handle a PWK Well, they could be there to get arrested too.
Okay, there we go something because it's a cause and effect, but Ray
uh, when you make a statement, one of the things that I appreciate is what's your solution?
So when you say they shouldn't, then what is the solution?
So if you could call in, you know, let us know what there has to be some type of, uh, of solution.
And that's
why I always
say.
Well, for
whatever the case, if he's saying not the benefit, he's saying the solution should be that summer fashion.
I'm talking about the benefits.
He said he don't believe that's the
answer.
What's the solution?
We're not talking right.
We're not talking just about the situation at summer fest, but we're also discussing just, you know, kids wilding out in general, out in these streets.
Yep.
And,
you know, go ahead.
Yeah.
And so I'm saying.
When we say or we have a push black To some people that are giving their ideas of a solution Please counter the solution with your solution because as I've always said it's going to take that melting pot of hearing what Ray has to say
What Anita may have to say, what Kevin may have to say.
Okay, Ray say,
see may have to say
Ray says and we
can try to figure it out.
Ray says that there's no way that white people would go for losing benefits for the behavior of their children because many of them are abusing high profile drugs.
A lot of white people are and that's why they're called unfortunately a name that has to do with litter at the end.
So they are.
They are too.
They are too.
But again, they are the majority receiving these benefits.
I got a poll on that as well.
So, uh, we got to get ready to take care of some bills.
Listen, I'm telling you, we can try to pull away from it, but, but it's about truth nation.
So if y'all, if y'all keep us there, we're going to be there.
We there.
Uh, in the words of the country boy, click with baby Drew and dairy note, uh, truth in the morning.
We got to take care of these bills.
We'll be black.
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Great morning troop nation.
Welcome black.
I am the legendary home up below along with my girl
Bailey Coleman
and Yeah, we've we've been having some interesting discussions and some dialogue on this morning and It's it's always great.
We had a lot of new callers Calling in giving their truth and but this is what it takes.
You know what I'm saying?
It takes us like
We're allowing other people oftentimes to make choices and decisions for us because we're not using our voice.
We'll say something on social media like, yeah, that's crazy.
Why they do that?
That's not stop.
We got to learn to use our voices to where they matter.
We got to go and attend these sessions when they're doing them because it matters how many people ended up attending those midtown.
Walmart session, I mean
it
grew
over time.
Yeah,
but guess what?
They got what they wanted,
you know,
okay?
Now
that there aren't other data centers around
mm-hmm So
but there won't be one at Midtown.
Yeah, and they will get the revitalization You know from that area What what would have happened had one come or had they put one in we still don't know mm-hmm, you know
They
spoke out and guess what?
They got what they wanted.
From the office of Alderman Martin Chambers Jr., the second district, he put out this press release on yesterday, July 6, 2026.
Headline, developer agrees to remove computing facility from Midtown Center Project.
Following extensive discussions with the property owner, the developer and city staff, and after carefully considering the feedback shared during three public information sessions and the testimony presented before the city plan commission, the applicant has made my office aware of a plan to remove the proposed computing research facility from the redevelopment of the former Midtown Center Walmart at 5825 West Hope Avenue.
As the alderman representing this community, I've always believed that meaningful public engagement must be more than a check box.
The listening sessions and public testimony provided residents with an opportunity to voice their concerns, ask difficult questions, and share their vision for the future of Midtown.
I heard those concerns clearly, and I took them seriously throughout this process.
The decision to remove the computing research facility reflects what can happen when residents engage local government and local government listens.
And all parties remain willing to find common ground by removing the computing research facility.
The focus returns to what matters most to our community, and that's transforming a long vacant property into a destination that delivers housing.
a new Milwaukee Public Library branch, neighborhood serving amenities and lasting benefits for residents.
While this change comes with the reduction in a potential tax revenue, it is a better reflection of the vision shared by residents throughout this process.
I have full confidence that the amended development will be a transformative investment for Midtown.
A development anchored by a Milwaukee Public Library branch, housing and expanded storage units will reactivate a property that has sat vacant for nearly a decade.
It will expand access to essential services and create new housing opportunities and improve the overall quality of this life for residents throughout the second automatic district.
My commitment remains unchanged.
I will continue working to attract quality investment, expand housing opportunities, strengthen our tax base, and revitalize Midtown Center through a process grounded in transparency, collaboration, and genuine community engagement.
And this is a statement, official statement on his letterhead for
uh, Alderman Mark Chambers, Jr.
That was dated July 6th, 2026.
And although I can, I can read very well.
If you see, I was reading this, any little pauses or snafus was only because I wasn't reading the full size document on a computer screen.
Right.
But I, look, I made this little thing work.
Maybe you probably like, damn, yeah, you
made that
work.
Whole document.
So I just want you all to know.
Uh, but yeah, so.
Again, it shows when community is engaged.
Absolutely.
And you see change.
Yeah, but we got to also still be aware of when some people that don't have anything vested to gain come inside our community and make us change our damn mind.
That happens too often.
It happens too often.
Yeah, we don't.
We don't.
You say we don't.
You're gonna say it.
So
I'll say that those people who were protesting were a gay activist group.
That's where I'm going.
Who
didn't live in the community.
That's where I'm
going.
Well, I only saw one person
that didn't live in the community.
Yeah, no, it's a lot.
It's a lot.
I know that's what I
was at the
meeting.
Yeah.
There weren't there.
There was only two people that had pink hair and
only
zero of them talked.
Most of the people that talked there were people that were in the community that time.
No, I'm just talking
to all of them because I saw the videos for the others.
Oh, yeah.
And they were they were a dominant force.
I'm just speaking about what I saw
when I was there.
I'm saying which meeting where you had all three.
I was at the second one,
the biggest one.
OK.
And most of the people that talked there were people from the
community.
The loudest one was the first one.
Hmm,
I don't know
it was I know but we were by video I Was by video so it was a lot so I'm just saying it's still often times again unfortunately
that we can allow other people, but then we get mad when certain stuff happened and be like, how did this happen?
It's the same way that I talk about people that don't like to bump out, so they don't like to speed up.
My
thing is
this, you know, my
go to the damn meeting.
My thing is this, you should attend the meeting and voice your opinion because that's what they are for.
Absolutely.
And at the end of the day.
you know, you need to make up your own individual money or what you want because you live in
that area.
Hello.
Hello.
You know, no matter who else is there because every protest, every, you know, meeting like this, there's bound to be people there that don't live in the area and it won't directly affect.
It's totally up to you to
make a decision.
I'm going to close the Walgreens down on Brady Street.
All right.
Well, you make
sure that's
not gonna happen.
Well, I don't live in the community, but I'm gonna come over
there
and voice my
opinion.
You can, but no one's gonna listen to
you.
Oh, so you should listen to people that.
Oh, okay.
Thank you.
Point proven.
Okay.
What else we got Bailey?
I'm just saying I'm just saying
off the truth talk text on it.
833 212 1017 Craig said.
21 and over don't solve fights, anger, issues and temper or tantrums because
you
have to do, um, on water street, rainy street and in the clubs, bars, et cetera amongst adults.
Uh, Marcus says, I recommend boot camp last week.
We have to realize jail does not scare anyone anymore because jail nowadays is vacation with internet.
Not the one I'm saying.
And
Al says we must understand we not white and don't care about what white kids are doing.
We're black and dealing with black issues.
Those people who was protesting, well, I said that part.
Yeah.
And Stacey said, can y'all ask Xavier when he's around white what their true thoughts are about black people?
How am I supposed to know that?
I'm black.
I don't think they vote voice their true opinions around me.
I just have lived around them.
Pretty simple.
So do you think that they have different opinions of some of us?
I think that's where the just like I'm just, you know, you don't understand.
I mean, just trying to go in and not going into the philosopher mode.
The reality is I can be around some people and know that they really don't give a damn about me and they don't care about me and they tolerate me because.
Well, I mean, there's black people like that.
Yeah, but we're talking about races.
We're talking about races where you're not going to have, uh, and that that question was specific.
So I'm not going with, I'm not changing their question.
I'm keeping it with their question.
And we know that there are, there's some people that are around us all the time and you know damn well that they are just doing it.
Uh, we heard about a list Bailey.
So you get where I'm going.
So we can't deny that.
It's
time for a
break
Check it out Tuesday the morning
I want
a one-seventh of truth.
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New.
Of course,
uh,
Bailey.
Well, it
goes on behind
the mic here.
Listen.
If you
really knew, you would be like, what?
Yeah.
It's called BTS behind the scenes.
I'm just saying you're gonna learn today.
But yeah, no.
So again, and I'll allow you, I know Sherwin Hughes will be able to really break that down when he comes on
with
the truth with Sherwin Hughes from nine to noon.
So I would advise the people who have other commitments because he was there for.
uh, all of these, uh, meetings or whatnot.
So I would just say let's take it over to him because he was actually there.
I've seen video and that's what I'm going off of.
I've heard Sherwin Hughes talk about it.
I've heard Sherwin Hughes have the people on the air.
So I would just refer all of those people to, um, to just call in.
Chop it up with Sherwin Hughes because he'll be able to have all of the facts.
All of that information that you need because he can rebut it even more and I would allow that, you know what I'm saying?
And for a person who has that, that's like asking a person that does this particular work.
They're like, yeah, I'm going to ask you because this is what you do.
So Sherwin Hughes has more information on that.
I'm sure and I'm sure he'll be bringing some of that up as well as it relates to that program.
So I would just say.
As it relates to that topic, you know, we'll we'll just refer to our resident our resident Knowledge expert in that particular situation in general because again, he even had people on the air That represented this whole project.
So yeah, we'll do that How about that?
How about that Bailey?
Yeah
I'm
just saying we we got a lot going on over here on the truth talk text line
Okay, just
read some of the 833 212 10 17 We about to get out of here, but I just want to leave you with some of these thoughts Craig said exactly there's black people that don't give a hair about us The government
Some communities, other races, I pray someday that everyone will get that empathy and understanding and being proactive, foster solutions to problems.
Stacey said, prime example, listening to the truth radio.
WNLV, WTMJ is like day and night on WTMJ.
Ain't no laughing, cracking jokes, ebonics.
for uh black hosts all business right uh and the angela said yo radio royals all truth hosts new and old and any names a bunch of should take uh should make 15 second PSAs against violence this summer.
Even Mayor Johnson and David Crawley should do that too.
Change one's mind save many lives.
You know the Angeles like Homer and I were saying We're not adverse to that.
Mm-hmm.
We we did a whole campaign across all black radio stations here in Milwaukee, correct?
Several years ago.
Mm-hmm.
So I mean, we're not adverse to doing anything like that, you know, real time I came from The largest
Black station here in Milwaukee.
Absolutely.
And, um, you know, and programmed that station for many, many years.
And y'all didn't know that I was just on air or I was on air and that's pretty much what people knew about me.
Um, but not only did I run that, but all of the stations that they had here reported to me.
Um, and, you know,
They all took you know when I was there took part in you know keeping the peace type campaigns here in Milwaukee Because it's that important and it is important it is and you know Hopefully we'll be able to do something like that here at the truth, and I'm sure Biko is listening probably like yeah We need to do that right so you know because he's that type of guy So you know fear not that is something we talk about it
Because it's important for people to hear mm-hmm, you know and when we talk about it You know It's if you knew radio you would know it's even better and more of an opportunity when we have these discussions about it.
Yep versus running a public service Campaign, which is also very helpful, right?
Correct,
but you know, it's about people hearing and knowing
And the repetition of it.
So there you go.
There it is.
There it is.
There it is.
And again, um, for those who are active and you go out and make sure that your voice is heard.
Yeah, it's important.
It is important when you don't, but then have nothing but complaints.
I'm not really hearing you.
Yeah.
You got to have a resolution.
Yeah.
You know, and it's just like.
Guess what the folks at Midtown
in that
area.
They had
the resolution.
Yep.
You know, and who knows what they're going to use that specific area for now.
Yeah.
Hopefully it's something a lot better.
Maybe it'll be more storage space.
It may be more storage
space or open up for more housing
could be more
housing.
So we don't know for sure.
I'm sure they have the space allotted for the library branch that's going to go in there.
But I think that without that data
or
data, whichever way
you
choose to pronounce it or enunciate it, that won't be there.
So in hopes that maybe that it'll increase the housing units or it will at least increase the storage space that they're there because they got the rule.
Yeah.
They got the room.
So they had a lot of a certain amount of space for that, which we talked about.
So, yeah, that.
Yeah.
So we'll see.
As long as the community wins, it's a win.
If the community wins, it's a win because we take a lot of else.
Yeah.
So if the community wins, though, then, hey, that's what it's all about.
It's just like trying to get the.
crime situation down and some of the recklessness is going on and trying to get that contained.
If we can get that contained, we know violence is unfortunately is never going to stop.
This country was bred on violence.
We understand that.
But there are some things that are going on in our community that, again, we can control.
Right.
And when we're asking for elected officials to do it instead of us.
stepping in and doing it.
So then when elected officials come up with something, we talk about, oh, that's crazy.
What's that going to do?
Well, what is your suggestions?
You know what I'm saying?
Right.
Mine is get your damn kids, get your damn toys or us adults.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, like again, if you're not doing anything and then they come up with something, you think that is crazy as hell and how is that?
But you weren't there.
But you didn't end up throwing out your solutions.
Exactly.
So what are you?
The city has to do something.
They got to do something.
So it's better to be able to try to have your input on how we maneuver this.
Yeah.
And if the city says, well, look, yeah, we do want to do this, but we're short of law enforcement.
You know what I'm saying?
Hey, so hey, you know, baby, I got to give a shout out.
You know, we had some garage door issues.
Shout out to S and B garage door services.
Um, Shalimar and of course, uh, four one four two zero four nine two three one.
Uh, he got that garage door right.
Took him a little while.
It was a, it was a project.
Okay.
But SMB garage door services.
Black owned and operated.
Yeah, make sure that he called in on Friday for what the business is.
Oh, yeah.
But yeah, thank you.
SMB garage door services for an excellent job.
Nice with our garage.
Nice.
Yeah, you got it right.
There it is.
That's all you
could ask for.
So Bailey, what you got?
I got this.
Listen, we hear you.
And there's a lot of positive things that we address that we talk about and we'll continue.