Catch & release courts are killing us (10-17-2025--Hour3)

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In fact, this week, the Charlotte Mecklimburg Police Department did a crime stats briefing for the first nine months of the year, and they highlighted one particular case of some fifteen year old punk who has like one hundred and it was it like one hundred and twenty or one hundred and fifty car thefts or arrests. Rather for like he apparently stole fifty five cars. It was averaging like like one a week or something, or one a day or one every other day, just remarkable numbers. And those are just the ones that they caught, right, those are just the ones that he was arrested for stealing. And you know, I think it was made easier by the fact that he posted some of the stolen vehicles on his social media. So obviously a real rocket scientist here. But it's not just here. Two teenagers you may have heard this, that were part of the group of utes that attacked a former staffer for Doge Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. The DOGE guys, right, were like tech bros that Elon brought on to you know, run all sorts of analyzes and such all over the government books to find you know, poor performance and efficiencies and the like. And one of these guys had was outed by the media because how dare you try to find efficiencies in gov co? And he went by an on screen name that I will not use. His on screen name. They were it's two words. I refer to him as large orbs okay, large orbs. His screen name was big B but the bee is a synonym for orbs okay, So I call him large orbs okay. But his actual name is Edward Korstein, and he along with a female friend of his. They were I don't know if it's his girlfriend or just a friend, it doesn't matter, but they were out in DC. I think it was late at night and they were jumped by what he described as a group of ten guys, so some sort of a mob, and they arrested two individuals of the mob, a boy and a girl, both aged fifteen from Hyattsville, Maryland. And you may have heard this week that the two of them were sentenced as for their roles in the mob attack on and attempted carjacking. That's what prompted. They tried to steal the vehicle of the girl and Chorusteine jumped in to protect her and he was beaten. He ended up with a concussion and a broken nose. And these two fifteen year olds were sentenced at a DC court on Tuesday. The boy was handed a twelve month probation and allowed to return home under house arrest. So he got a year of house arrest for an attempted carjacking and a violent assault that could have killed a person, maybe two. The girl was given a nine month probation sentence and remanded to a local youth shelter. The attack occurred on August third. Right, So, here's the thing that gets me in this story over at the New York Post is that the other accomplices, the other members of this mob, they have not been They've not been found, they've not been identified, they've not been arrested. Why are you giving probation to two of the attackers? Why are you giving them probation if they haven't turned over any evidence to help catch the others. That's what you get for not cooperating with an investigation in Washington, DC. Closer to home here in Charlotte, the Charlotte Meckleberg Police Department is investigating an assault with a deadly weapon following a violent family dispute. This occurred on Nobles Avenue on Sunday. Officers say the altercation left one victim with serious injuries, including a stab wound that punctured her lung. Police say the victims provided video evidence showing the assault as it happened. Okay, so we have video evidence of the attack. According to an INTI didn't report, Paulette Gibson was seen in the video swinging a knife multiple times at one of the victims, aiming for her head and upper body. The report also states that a golf club was used during the fight and that Paulette Gibson's ten year old daughter participated in the assault and her mom, Paulette Gibson, did not intervene to try to stop her, so welcomed the ten year old daughter to the fight. Police A. Gibson was arrested and during questioning, she first claimed that she did not know who stabbed the victim, before admitting, Okay, yes, the confrontation was planned. Oh, it was planned. So this was a premeditated attempted murder, Like that's what that was? Premeditated attempted murder. This was regarding an ongoing dispute in involving their children. So what does that tell me? First, first I read this story from WSOCTV, and I thought, hmmm, is it like like a lesbian couple. They've got kids and they're in the middle of like a custody battle or something. Is that what this was about? But upon reading it again, she admits the confrontation was planned over an ongoing dispute involving their children. I could also read that sentence to mean that the two women involved in this altercation. They each have their own kids, and the kids had a beef and the moms then engaged in the physical violence that arose from the kid's beef, which would explain why paul Ed Gibson didn't stop her ten year old daughter from engaging in the physical violence in the attempted murder, which is what that was. You start when you plan to fight somebody and you bring a knife, and then you bust the knife out and start swinging and around and you stab the person. Yeah, that is attempted murder and that's premeditated. Matt van Swall posted up on Twitter that she was released on a twenty thousand dollars bond and she had fifteen prior arrests, including for violent offenses, and she is back out on the streets catch and release courts. That's what we have in Mecklenburg County and we are all in danger because of it. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. 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They are your life told through the eyes of everyone around you and all who came before you, and they will tell others to come who you are. Visit creative video dot com. Another example of our catch and release court system, A teacher assistant at a Charlotte elementary school was arrested last weekend after she allegedly cut someone with a knife. Forty four year old Chantra Prapa Sing was accused of unlawfully, willfully, feloniously cutting another person's neck Sunday, October twelfth. That's according to the arrest warrant. It was unclear how bad the victim was injured, but Sing was charged with one count of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. And affidavit said Sing was married to the victim, So it's her husband. I'm thinking it's her husband. Everybody or wife, okay, And the alleged assault happened after her husband. Oh no, her husband. Okay, that makes sense sense. The alleged assault happened after her husband, said she got frustrated that he had not cleaned the house. Hmm, well, who among us? Okay. According to the affidavit, she told investigators she accidentally cut her husband when she turned around as she was starting to make breakfast. Okay, well, now wait a minute, Hang on a second, you're making breakfast. How could he have had time to clean the house. Then that's like a if you're you're cleaning the whole house, that's a that's an all day kind of a thing, unless, of course, he was supposed to have done it Saturday, right, because this was a Sunday morning. So she's frustrated, she's mad he didn't clean the house. She's making breakfast in this pig sty because he hasn't cleaned it up, and she just so happens to be using a knife and then she just she just turned she just like swung around real fast. Oh, oh my gosh. And I stabbed him in the neck, which is weird? Is he like very short? Was he sitting down while you were standing up? How do you actually cut somebody on the neck without raising your knife to that level whilst turning around? If I'm going with your story that it was completely inadvertent and you were just like you just turned around real fast, and oh my gosh, I stabbed him in the neck. I cut his neck while arguing with him about him not cleaning the house. Uh. Yeah, I'm not buying this cover story. Not buying it. Her husband called nine to one one and claimed that his wife, Chandra brah Babah Singh, was quote frustrated and purposely attacked him with the knifevtly so he's telling a bit of a different story. Singh was listed online as a teacher assistant for grades K through three at end Haven Elementary School in the Valentine area. And as I understand it, all of those classrooms will now be very very clean. That's They're all gonna make sure they clean their classrooms. Court records showed seeing was initially denied bond. What denied bond? Was this in Mecklinburg County? Yeah, this was Mecklenburg County. She was denied bond by a magistrate. Oh no, here we go, and then had it set at ten thousand dollars during a court appearance. Okay, well there you go. So she did get denied bond, So let's give it up. Let's give it up for whoever that magistrate was, who just momentarily said, hmm, yeah, I'm not sure that stabbing somebody in the neck over an argument about cleaning the house probably shouldn't get a bond. So denied bond first, but then goes to court and the judge don't know who the judge is. The judge then gives her a ten thousand dollars bond. She's appointed a public defender, and a ten thousand dollars bond means she can walk. I don't know if it was secured. If it's a secured bond, that's one thousand dollars she got to come up with. Unsecured, she can walk, but she has apparently walked. She's back out, don't know if she's back in the classroom. So if you send your kids to endh Haven Elementary School in Valentine, you might want to tell your kids, you know, head on a swivel, just be on the lookout if she's like making you snacks or something in the classroom, don't be anywhere nearer because she has a habit of stabbing people when she turns around while in the middle of preparing food. Now, we do have a case of an individual not being released on bond for serious charges. This is Cecil Brockman, state lawmaker. He made his first appearance in court this week. He's been charged with statutory sex crimes. He was arrested and charged with two counts of statutory rape two counts of indecent liberties with a minor. He was due to have a first appearance in court, but then that hearing was delayed due to a medical emergency, which we don't know what that was. The DA alleged that Brockman struck up a relationship with a teenager via an online app back in May, and that they were living together in Atlanta before moving to High Point in August. In August, the victim turned fifteen in June, so he had this relationship with a fourteen year old. On October fifth, Brockman allegedly called nine one one asking for help trying to find his quote friend, the victim, whom he was tracking on an app called Life three sixty. Davidson County Sheriff's Office responded and then contacted the High Point Police Department and open investigation. They then contacted the State Bureau of Investigation. Initially, the magistrate issued no bond. Well, there you go, that's on brand. The magistrate issued no bond for Brockman when he was taken into custody with court documents alleging he used his status as a lawmaker to try to locate the victim and make contact with the fifteen year old while they were in a hospital. The DA said Brockman attempted to push through locked doors in the emergency department where the victim was being treated as a patient. The victim's phone was seized and sexual videos were found on that phone. Brockman appeared at the hearing via video call from the hospital. He appeared distraught during the hearing and asked the judge to let him speak, but after a recess after he spoke with his lawyer, he decided not to speak, which is probably for the best. He was given an updated bond, though of over one million dollars and told to have no contact with the victim or ask anybody to contact the victim on his He is now being called upon to resign his position, which by the way, the legislature comes back into session. He's a Democrat and Democrats don't have enough votes otherwise to block an override of the governor's vetos, so he's not getting out anytime soon, and so Democrats now are probably going to lose the vetos override votes, which is why they wanted to resign immediately. So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my mom and my dad took care of him as he got worse. Forty years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. But things are different today because of the work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome people with huge hearts. I've been a supporter for twenty five years. This cause means a lot to me. I participate in the annual Walk to end Alzheimer's and I'm leading a Charlotte team again this year, and it's called once again Pete's Pack. You can sign up and you can join the team and walk with us. It's on October eighteenth, that truest field. Sign up at alz dot org slash Walk and then you could search for my team name Pete's Pack. There's also a link at thepetepod dot com. There's also a link in the description of this podcast. Also, I'll be am seeing the Gastonia Walk on October eleventh, and so you can make a team and join that one too, or make a donation and help me hit my goal of five thousand dollars. If you do, I really appreciate it. There are a bunch of other walks all over the Carolinas. You can go to alz dot org slash walk for all the dates and locations. We're closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's. Can you help us get there? Will you walk with me? For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments. This is why we walk, all right. I want to take a moment here more than a moment actually, and thank everybody that has been so generous and have supported the Alzheimer's Association. You've heard me talk about the walks that we do, the Walk to End Alzheimers. Last weekend, I was in Gastonia for that walk. Tomorrow we'll be I'll be in Charlotte with the team Pete's Pack. By the way, if you still want to donate or join, you can do that at alz dot org slash walk and then do a search for Pete's Pack. You can make a donation as well. We did hit our goal. We set a goal of five thousand dollars and I think we are approaching seven thousand. Thank you. I mean really it was Zebo because like I couldn't have read I mean, I couldn't have donated all that money. So I appreciate everybody's generosity and doing that. And I do have the list of the donors. I'm only going to give their first names in order to protect the innocent. Paul Woodie, Keith, Robert, Christy Bill that his donation was memory of his mom, Nancy, Angela, Mark, Mike, Mark Hampton, Deborah, Terrence, Teresa Donald, James, Crystal, Paul Kim, Mandy Willis, Brenda, Michael, Kim, Gary, Helen, Chris, Kelly, Nick, Thank you Nick. Sorry, oh, I just did vote Mark. We have a lot of Marks and Douglas and Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Bev, Kathy, Chris, Christopher, Cynthia, Debbie, Diana, Gig, Janey, John, Kate, Cathy, Linda and Freddie, Lindsay, Laurie, Margot, Marilyn and Marilyn, Maureen, Meghan, Michael, Nancy, Nancy, Nicky and Alex Norman, Sarah, Shannon, Shay and Chris, Stephen, Terry and Tracy. Thank you all well very much for all of your donations to the Alzheimer's Association. It funds research, it funds resources for caregivers and for family members. These are like really important programs that like when my family was taken care of my grandfather with Alzheimer's when I was back in middle school, these types of resources just did not exist. But thanks to the work of the Alzheimer's Association over the last forty years, they have built up this support system and came across this at NBC News. With few treatments available to stop or reverse Alzheimer's, disease. Scientists have turned to cancer drugs as a potential means of walking back cognitive decline. Alzheimer's case is arising due to an aging population, but there's no cure. Attempts to develop new treatments that slow the disease's progress rather than lessened symptoms, have frequently failed. There are only two drugs that are currently approved by the FDA. One's called Lakembi, the other's Cassunla Kissunla, which they hope slows the progression of early Alzheimer's, but the benefits are somewhat limited at this point. So some pharmaceutical companies have halted or abandoned their drug development programs because of unsuccessful trials. Others are trying to use existing medications, including some of those weight loss drugs. They're seeing if some of that might have a positive impact. 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If you repurpose a drug, it just takes usually around two to three years, and then you can go to clinical trials and the cost is way lower. Part of the difficulty in developing drugs for Alzheimer's is the complexity of the disease. Its exact cause is largely unknown. However, there was another recent study that was done including people from North Carolina that found eating healthy, being active keeps the Alzheimer's at bay. They have lower risks, the lower prevalence. So we are making strides, which is good and thank you again to everybody that donated. Up next, we've got Brett Winterbull will be pregaming. Stay tuned. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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Call or text eight two eight three six seven seventy sixty eight or check out all there is to offer at cabins Offashville dot com and make memories that'll last a lifetime. Here's a little segment we do every Friday to close out the week with my good friend Brett Winterbol. You can hear them three to six here on News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine three WBT Brett how Art thou sir. I am wonderful. It's good to be with you on this momentous Friday. I've got something to play for you, sir. I think this is going to turn the tide. Okay, in broad View outside of the broad View Ice facility. Yes, broad is that the Chicago one? Yes, I believe. Okay, So I think this might do it? Okay? Are you ready? And it then just continues like that for a while. So are you now willing to abandon immigration enforcement? Because according to the banner here, yeah, with the the clerics wearing the UH like the Roman Catholic black with the white collar. Uh and a CAFEA. I guess that's now part of the garb of priests. That's that's new. That's new on me. You're all wearing cafeas and it says God's Love knows no borders. Well, okay, I agree with that. Yeah, God's Love knows no boarders. I agree with that as well. So then that must mean you agree. Also, no, no, no, tell let me tell you something. When you start singing, yeah, and you're doing the singing thing, yeah, you're transporting us all back to a very unfortunate time, the late sixties early seventies, when people were just. But that's how they that's how they changed the world. That No, they didn't change the world. Are you sure has the world been changed? I well, I mean I they I mean I feel like they tell me it changed. They can tell you a lot of things they told us that. When we were growing up, it was like everything, Well, you're a gen xer, you remember all the shows and movies. Everything was about the sixties and how they changed. Oh yeah, yes, but but but there was certain movies that were way better than other movies. When you're doing that, like for example The Outsider. Yeah, amazing movie, West Side Story, Platoon, West Side Story not about not about the sixties, No, no, not the sixties. That's the fifties, the fifties. So you're telling me that, like a song like this wouldn't move the needle. What's the name? Which side are you? Oh? Gosh, which side are you? Yes? Yeah, let me tell you something I would that will be. I know you were a big fan. Were you a big fan of that? What was that musical that they were doing about Alexander Hamilton? I think it was called Hamilton. Was that what it was called? No, yeah it was. It's called Alexander, Alex Alex Alex for a moment to never saw it? I didn't either, I have never seen it. I didn't either. But the fact of the matter is, I think those I want those people. I want those people at every event. I want them singing at the World Series. I want them. Get rid of a dirty bunny. What's his name? The guy who's going to be in the in the super Bowl? You know the guy that why is his name? Bad bunny? If he only sings in Spanish? Because I think it's I shouldn't been mallow Elbanio or whatever. The word for rabbit is mallow mallow RABBITO. That's really look at that. Please, I'll talk and then I want you to get that that what do you call it? That? That domain? Go okay, just just go ahead register that domain right now? Which side are you on? Why don't they tell you? Why don't they tell you which side you're supposed to be on? They might, you want to hear more, they may tell us which side to be on? Which side are you on? Somebody fight against Joe Landscap within our walls, will fight from dong to dust. You know how many children are crying in the car right now. That's kind of ambivalent. I mean it's kind of not ambivalent, but uh ambiguous. And it's very well. It's they're gonna fight against This was from This is from the doge era, but. It's it's it's interesting, it's interchangeable. These people, the green Granny's who then rebranded as the raging they were now they're the Raging grannies. These elderly women who sing, you know, like they're like weird Al Yankovic. You know, they like take real songs and then like rewrite the lyrics of them I'm not Look, I'm not knocking that sort of endeavor. But I did that too when I was in elementary school. Yes, I rewrote the lyrics for uh for the Longest Time by Billy Joel, and I rewrote the lyrics for our Retiring Principle, and the chorus sang the lyrics as an homage to him on his way. So that's a progressive sort of a thing that you could do. That's decent. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. So it was about mister Simonton was his name, and so we you know, we sang a song for mister Simonton's last you know, fall concert or whatever it was. Have you kept up with them? No, No, that was a definite. I left New York for a reason, you know, many reasons, actually, but I left New York. Yeah, no, that's that's one reason not to return. It's one of the long list of reasons not to return to New York. True. But yeah, so yeah, so these these songs, Yeah, I just I don't understand why they keep doing that. We used to have hoot Nannies once upon a time. Do you remember hoot Nannies? Are you old enough to remember hoot Nanny's we would go to hoot Nanni's. I don't think you did, Yeah I did. You went to an actual hoot Nanny. It was at the school, but we were forced to listen to it and they would play things like, you know, different songs, Joe. No, that was no, no, they were we were lucky to get like. We danced in one of our gym classes. We had to learn how to square dance in elementary school. I hated square dance. It was the worst. And then they were mister Reeves, the gym teacher made us square dance too. Centerfold No, yep, square dancing to centerfold? Head, good beat, there you go. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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