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[00:00:28] I will get to some of the wailing and gnashing of teeth that is our current political discord, or discourse, I guess. But I gotta tell you, I really can't believe that Sheriff Gary, not my fault, McFadden, is a pretty awful boss to work for. I'm just kidding. I totally knew it. Like, obviously. Everything about the guy oozes terrible boss. Holy smokes.
[00:01:00] WBTV's Naomi Coles got the sit-down interview with Kevin Canty. Can he work for McFadden or Canty? He can't. Not anymore. By the way, this guy, he was the chief deputy for McFadden. And where was it here? It was a write-up. Oh, here it is. According to the WBTV report, when he took the job,
[00:01:28] Canty had recently retired from the State Bureau of Investigation as special agent in charge of the Charlotte Field Office. He had also held roles as a federal probation officer after starting his career in the early 1990s at the then Charlotte Police Department, which is now Charlotte Mecklenburg Police, CMPD, because that was before. People may not know this if you're new to the area.
[00:01:54] We used to have a Mecklenburg Police Department and Charlotte Police Department. And then they did a merge of certain operations. Not political merger. So you don't have a Charlotte-Mecklenburg governing structure. You still have the city council. You have the Mecklenburg Commission.
[00:02:17] But operational consolidation occurred. And I guess 80s or 90s, when they started down that path, they merged the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. They merged what also like the the water department.
[00:02:31] And then they kind of divvied stuff up. That's why if you are outside Charlotte city limits, but still in the county like I am, the city of Charlotte controls our zoning decisions, even though we don't get to vote for our elected representatives on the Charlotte City Council because we're outside city limits.
[00:02:51] But they get to control our growth, even though we now can't get annexed into the city. Not that I want to be, but it's one of the remnants of the repeal of forced annexations.
[00:03:05] Anyway, I am down a rabbit hole. I apologize. Back to the WBTV story.
[00:03:10] Kevin Canty's decision to resign his post as chief deputy at the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office was not an abrupt decision, reports Naomi Coles.
[00:03:22] He had been working on the resignation letter he sent to the entire agency for months.
[00:03:29] He sent this to everybody? I didn't realize that. He sent this to everyone?
[00:03:37] I feel like I need to play the clip from Scent of a Woman.
[00:03:41] Listen, I'll take a flamethrower to this place.
[00:03:45] In fact, Canty told WBTV in a one-on-one interview following his resignation, he wrote the first draft of the letter back in June, just a few months after he took the job.
[00:04:00] I didn't realize he's only he hadn't even been on the job a year.
[00:04:04] That's how quickly he realized this guy's toxic.
[00:04:10] Which tells me that Kevin Canty does not listen to my program.
[00:04:15] It's very hurtful.
[00:04:17] He had his ceremonial swearing in on February 12th.
[00:04:22] And he said, quote,
[00:04:25] The very first time I attended an executive team meeting, he had introduced me as his new chief deputy.
[00:04:33] He then began to address the people in the room, majors, captains, and he began making insulting comments about them and denigrating them.
[00:04:47] This guy, this guy is a, the sheriff.
[00:04:56] He's a narcissist.
[00:04:58] This is a, it's a very toxic personality.
[00:05:04] Should not be in a position of leadership.
[00:05:07] Now, a lot of narcissists end up in, in leadership positions.
[00:05:13] But this is what Eric, or sorry, Kevin Canty is describing.
[00:05:19] Canty said, uh, this became a frequent experience at executive meetings.
[00:05:25] Quote, executive team meetings and the comp stat meetings often turned into what I call public floggings, where he's dressing down people, people on the executive team in front of everyone.
[00:05:39] Now, keep in mind, Sheriff Gary, not my fault, McFadden, has been in this office for more than a term.
[00:05:50] So he's been there and, yeah, he's been there now, what, six years?
[00:05:56] That is plenty of time for him to have learned good management practice.
[00:06:03] And this is not one of them.
[00:06:05] This is actually a bad management practice.
[00:06:09] Yelling at people, denigrating people, especially in public in front of their colleagues or, or their own subordinates, right?
[00:06:18] Bad.
[00:06:19] You, you chastise in private, you praise in public.
[00:06:24] You don't chop people, uh, out at the knees in front of their coworkers.
[00:06:30] I mean, you do if you're a terrible boss, which McFadden is.
[00:06:34] So it really does all make sense.
[00:06:37] And, uh, if you, well, let me say it this way.
[00:06:46] People know this, right?
[00:06:49] If I am aware of this stuff and not just from this story, obviously that broke yesterday with this interview at WBTV.
[00:06:55] Um, like I could tell this about McFadden when I first came back to Charlotte.
[00:07:02] Actually, I knew it before.
[00:07:05] I, because when I was up in Asheville and he had won election and I would play some of the clips from him and do some stories on him up in Asheville.
[00:07:15] I knew immediately what kind of a guy this was as an elected official.
[00:07:20] Not good.
[00:07:21] And then of course you're watching where, you know, he goes in front of the county commissioners.
[00:07:25] You listen to his press conferences, his interviews that he does.
[00:07:29] And it becomes very clear, very quickly.
[00:07:32] This guy is not a good sheriff.
[00:07:35] He is not a good sheriff.
[00:07:38] And people know this.
[00:07:39] His party knows this.
[00:07:42] His fellow elected officials know this.
[00:07:45] His staff knows this.
[00:07:48] People with power to make a change here know this about him.
[00:07:54] That's not to say everybody hates him.
[00:07:56] There are people that, there are people that like him.
[00:07:58] There are people that support him.
[00:07:59] No doubt.
[00:08:00] But there are a lot of people in town and across the state that know this about him.
[00:08:05] In Canty's resignation letter, he included an allegation that McFadden regularly used racially charged language when discussing subordinates, both white people and pox.
[00:08:23] People of color.
[00:08:26] By the way, was there some sort of a vote or something where, like, is that an acceptable term to use?
[00:08:33] Do pox like being called POCs?
[00:08:36] Is that?
[00:08:37] Or is it like the Latinx thing?
[00:08:39] Where, like, actual Latinos were like, what the hell is that word?
[00:08:43] We don't like that word.
[00:08:46] Topic for another day.
[00:08:47] Both Canty and McFadden are black men.
[00:08:51] Okay, so there can't be any kind of racism that McFadden loves to throw at everybody else as he's apparently slinging words like cracker.
[00:09:02] Yeah, and the N-word.
[00:09:05] Yeah.
[00:09:07] I'm trying to imagine what would happen if a white sheriff were to.
[00:09:14] Oh, that's right.
[00:09:14] We actually have examples of this.
[00:09:16] Remember, there was a sheriff down east.
[00:09:20] He got in all sorts of trouble.
[00:09:22] I think they actually kicked him out of office at some point.
[00:09:25] Like, the elected officials removed him from office.
[00:09:29] And then I think he ran again and won.
[00:09:30] But when asked to provide specific examples of the allegation,
[00:09:36] Canty said the first instance came two or three weeks after he was hired.
[00:09:41] When McFadden and Canty were driving to lunch,
[00:09:44] McFadden described a white person they were discussing
[00:09:47] with a slur.
[00:09:51] And there's a recording.
[00:09:55] There is a recording of McFadden using these slurs.
[00:10:02] I know it's very close to the election and Democrats are, you know,
[00:10:06] still prepping the bunker for the, you know, Hitlerian era.
[00:10:10] But I don't know.
[00:10:12] County commissioners maybe want to take a look at this.
[00:10:14] State lawmakers, Democrat Party official.
[00:10:16] Well, actually, hang on.
[00:10:17] There's one fewer Democrat Party official after the top executive director
[00:10:21] at the Mecklenburg County Democrat Party resigned effective Wednesday,
[00:10:27] calling her work environment hostile and nepotism running rampant.
[00:10:37] I think maybe a little bit of racism thrown in as well.
[00:10:42] That's the Democrat Party in Mecklenburg County.
[00:10:45] Guys, I think there might be some problems in the Mecklenburg County Democrat
[00:10:49] political party establishment here.
[00:10:51] What do you think?
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[00:11:55] It's another episode of what county has the worst sheriff?
[00:12:00] Actually, it's not.
[00:12:00] We do.
[00:12:04] We really do.
[00:12:05] And I understand that people hear, you know, me on this station
[00:12:09] and they think, oh, that's just some right, blah, blah, blah.
[00:12:12] I got along fine with every other sheriff that was a Democrat going back 20-something years.
[00:12:19] Yeah.
[00:12:20] Gary McFadden is uniquely terrible at the job.
[00:12:24] For a variety of reasons that I have outlined over the last three years on this show,
[00:12:32] on this station.
[00:12:35] He is dishonest.
[00:12:38] He's petty and vindictive.
[00:12:39] And apparently now he uses a bunch of racial slurs against his own staff members.
[00:12:49] In one of the recordings, he says,
[00:12:51] I know I can't trust that captain,
[00:12:53] but that captain, that white cracker captain,
[00:12:57] is better than the other seven captains upstairs,
[00:12:59] who I guess are black?
[00:13:01] I assume he said that the white captain will never get promoted,
[00:13:08] but what he needs is that this white captain will, quote,
[00:13:15] chop my wood and carry my water,
[00:13:17] which is one of the other things McFadden does is he just pulls these really random,
[00:13:22] bizarre, and irrelevant metaphors and phrases,
[00:13:27] just like he says words that aren't like,
[00:13:32] well, I don't know if he actually uses the word supposedly,
[00:13:35] but I bet he does.
[00:13:37] You know, it's like that kind of stuff,
[00:13:38] those kinds of malapropisms.
[00:13:44] But that's good to know that he can't trust a particular captain,
[00:13:50] but begrudgingly acknowledges that the white cracker captain
[00:13:54] is better than all of the other captains,
[00:13:56] but he won't get promoted because he needs that white captain
[00:13:59] to carry his water.
[00:14:00] I don't even know what that means.
[00:14:02] Like, are you too good to go to the water cooler yourself
[00:14:04] and get a little styrofoam cup and bring it back
[00:14:07] or go to the fridge and get a water bottle?
[00:14:09] Is that the idea?
[00:14:10] I don't even know why you're chopping wood.
[00:14:11] Are you guys still running like fireplaces or something over there?
[00:14:16] Not sure.
[00:14:19] His chief deputy, who has now resigned very, very publicly,
[00:14:25] did this interview with WBTV's Naomi Coles.
[00:14:32] And Kevin Canty said,
[00:14:35] I have often heard people talk about and actually witnessed it myself
[00:14:39] referring to black employees as having a, quote,
[00:14:46] plantation mentality.
[00:14:51] McFadden normally uses that term to refer to a black employee
[00:14:55] who pushes back, who doesn't see eye to eye with him,
[00:15:00] who takes a different position.
[00:15:03] Which isn't even the meaning of that phrase.
[00:15:07] A plantation mentality.
[00:15:09] It's like, that's the opposite.
[00:15:11] It's so on brand for McFadden.
[00:15:13] It's like, that is the complete opposite.
[00:15:15] Yes, John, I'm going to need you to start my car, by the way,
[00:15:17] when I leave today.
[00:15:23] It's not even the right use of that term.
[00:15:28] People who are pushing back against you,
[00:15:31] people who are disagreeing with you.
[00:15:32] Wait, wait.
[00:15:33] Where are all the people that are so worried about authoritarianism?
[00:15:37] This is your local sheriff.
[00:15:39] And this is how he behaves with his own staff.
[00:15:43] What do you think he thinks of you?
[00:15:46] You're just a lowly citizen.
[00:15:48] I got a message.
[00:15:49] From Jay, who says,
[00:15:52] I go to a church.
[00:15:53] I will omit any reference to where it is,
[00:15:56] so as to protect the innocent.
[00:15:59] I go to a church that uses sheriff deputies every Sunday for security.
[00:16:06] We have a pool of, I don't know,
[00:16:09] somewhere around a dozen that rotate through.
[00:16:12] All races.
[00:16:14] They showed me the letter Sunday morning.
[00:16:17] All are planning to retire as soon as they can.
[00:16:21] I have known Gary since 1997 or so when he arranged for the CMPD security at first president,
[00:16:29] at first president,
[00:16:30] oh,
[00:16:30] for,
[00:16:32] no,
[00:16:32] okay.
[00:16:33] Nevermind.
[00:16:34] Over the last 25 years,
[00:16:35] not my fault's ego has gotten so large that it doesn't even fit in Charlotte anymore.
[00:16:40] Somebody needs to run this guy out of town.
[00:16:44] I'm trying.
[00:16:45] I'm trying.
[00:16:46] No,
[00:16:47] look,
[00:16:47] he could stay in town.
[00:16:48] He just shouldn't be in elected office.
[00:16:51] He just should not be in elected office.
[00:16:54] He's a,
[00:16:55] he is a bad sheriff.
[00:16:58] He is not a good elected official.
[00:17:02] And he's not a good boss.
[00:17:04] He's not a good manager of people.
[00:17:08] I understand different cultures,
[00:17:11] you know,
[00:17:12] office cultures and stuff and law enforcement,
[00:17:15] military is different than you would find in a corporate setting.
[00:17:18] I understand that.
[00:17:20] People would be shocked if they heard some of the humor that exists,
[00:17:25] in,
[00:17:25] you know,
[00:17:26] law enforcement circles,
[00:17:28] even newsroom circles,
[00:17:29] by the way,
[00:17:30] gallows humor and such.
[00:17:32] It's a,
[00:17:32] it's a coping mechanism.
[00:17:34] It's a defense mechanism.
[00:17:36] And you would not tolerate a lot of that stuff in,
[00:17:40] um,
[00:17:41] in a corporate setting,
[00:17:42] but in a professional,
[00:17:44] as Gary McFadden always likes to talk about how he has professionalized the
[00:17:49] sheriff's office,
[00:17:51] you don't get to use racial slurs about your workers in a professional sheriff's
[00:17:59] office should not get to keep your job.
[00:18:07] If you got people,
[00:18:08] I am kind of curious,
[00:18:09] like,
[00:18:09] are we going to start seeing more and more people quit?
[00:18:11] I don't know.
[00:18:12] Like these captains,
[00:18:13] I don't know how close they all are to retirement,
[00:18:16] but my God,
[00:18:17] this is what he thinks of you.
[00:18:18] You're,
[00:18:18] this is what your boss,
[00:18:20] this is how your boss talks about you.
[00:18:22] And it's on tape,
[00:18:24] by the way,
[00:18:24] I had like WBTV has published the recording.
[00:18:28] It does exist.
[00:18:32] Um,
[00:18:33] let me get back to the WBTV article.
[00:18:36] Uh,
[00:18:38] here.
[00:18:38] Oh,
[00:18:38] this is from Kevin Canty,
[00:18:39] the chief deputy McFadden's chief deputy who quit after.
[00:18:45] I don't even think he's been on the job a year.
[00:18:48] He said the public needs to know the citizens of Mecklenburg County need to know the truth about Gary McFadden.
[00:18:56] Canty said that a core frustration leading to his resignation was what he considered a frequent disregard for basic chain of command processes,
[00:19:06] as well as McFadden's interference with the office of professional conduct's decisions for promotions,
[00:19:14] demotions,
[00:19:16] demotions,
[00:19:16] or disciplinary actions against staff.
[00:19:20] What it results in is utter chaos.
[00:19:23] He says,
[00:19:24] if somebody doesn't like a directive given to them by an immediate supervisor,
[00:19:29] they go to McFadden or they go to him with information about their supervisor.
[00:19:34] And then he believes it at face value without attempting to vet it and find out if it's even true.
[00:19:42] As all good homicide detectives would do,
[00:19:44] right?
[00:19:47] Yeah.
[00:19:47] He's a former homicide detective.
[00:19:49] He had a TV show they made for him like on,
[00:19:53] what was it?
[00:19:54] Sci-fi channel or something.
[00:19:57] A&E.
[00:19:58] I don't remember,
[00:19:59] but it was called.
[00:20:00] I am homicide.
[00:20:01] I've watched a couple of the episodes and it's just basically him recounting cases that he cracked.
[00:20:07] But it does make you wonder if this is how you're running your operation.
[00:20:13] People just show up in your office and they're like,
[00:20:15] I didn't like that captain.
[00:20:17] My boss told me to do something and I don't want to do it.
[00:20:20] I think he's a racist.
[00:20:21] I think he's that.
[00:20:22] I think she's this.
[00:20:23] And he's like,
[00:20:24] okay,
[00:20:24] good enough for me.
[00:20:25] Like,
[00:20:25] I got questions now about your investigative prowess.
[00:20:28] I do.
[00:20:30] And that's not,
[00:20:31] that's not,
[00:20:32] I've never thought anything of it.
[00:20:34] Although I have wondered why you can't testify,
[00:20:39] but he won't tell us why.
[00:20:42] And maybe this is why he's got this beef and he goes against office of professional conduct decisions,
[00:20:50] right?
[00:20:51] OPC decisions.
[00:20:53] Maybe that's why he rejects their recommendations on personnel and staffing or something.
[00:20:58] I don't know.
[00:21:01] Canty said that he first tried to outline his concerns privately to McFadden at a meeting in June
[00:21:07] and their relationship deteriorated rapidly after that.
[00:21:11] Yeah,
[00:21:11] that kind of happens with narcissists.
[00:21:13] In July,
[00:21:14] Canty said he then publicly pushed back in an executive meeting when he said McFadden began insulting him in front of the group,
[00:21:22] leading to a later one-on-one meeting that turned tense.
[00:21:27] From that point,
[00:21:30] Canty said he regularly updated his resignation draft from June that he originally wrote in June.
[00:21:36] And he anticipated that things were coming to a head late in October.
[00:21:40] So a couple of weeks ago when McFadden told him that they had,
[00:21:44] quote,
[00:21:45] unreconcilable differences,
[00:21:46] which isn't even a word.
[00:21:48] It's irreconcilable.
[00:21:50] Oh my gosh.
[00:21:54] Canty believes that McFadden is unfit for office.
[00:21:58] I just want to say,
[00:22:00] thank you,
[00:22:01] Kevin Canty.
[00:22:03] This is what it is going to take.
[00:22:06] Good people taking a risk.
[00:22:09] I understand.
[00:22:09] Look,
[00:22:09] this guy quit his job.
[00:22:11] Now,
[00:22:11] maybe he didn't need the job anymore because he had this career already.
[00:22:15] I don't know.
[00:22:17] But this is,
[00:22:18] this is not an easy thing for a person to do.
[00:22:22] You're risking alienation of,
[00:22:24] you know,
[00:22:25] fellow law enforcement officers,
[00:22:28] friends of yours and stuff.
[00:22:30] But he is exactly right that the public needs to know the way McFadden is running the sheriff's office.
[00:22:38] It is the oldest elected office in America.
[00:22:42] The sheriff position is.
[00:22:45] He has a lot of power.
[00:22:48] He's got guns.
[00:22:52] He needs to be held accountable,
[00:22:55] not just at the ballot box where we get to decide only in the Democrat primary.
[00:23:01] Right.
[00:23:02] Because of the way the voter demographics are now in Mecklenburg County,
[00:23:06] Republicans don't have a shot at unseating McFadden.
[00:23:11] Maybe they will this time.
[00:23:11] I don't know,
[00:23:12] but,
[00:23:13] but this is what it will require.
[00:23:14] It has to come from inside the Democrat party.
[00:23:17] You guys need to police yourselves better.
[00:23:20] You're not doing a good job.
[00:23:24] In a related story,
[00:23:26] the executive director of the Mecklenburg County Democratic Party quit.
[00:23:31] Comparing her experience at the organization to that of quote,
[00:23:35] professional black women during the Jim Crow era.
[00:23:41] Seems like they got some problems in the Democrat party.
[00:23:45] Let me,
[00:23:45] let me get Jerry on real quick.
[00:23:47] Hey,
[00:23:47] Jerry,
[00:23:47] welcome to the show.
[00:23:49] Hey,
[00:23:49] Pete,
[00:23:49] real quick.
[00:23:50] So I always hear your house.
[00:23:52] So,
[00:23:52] and like rattling in my head.
[00:23:53] And so this is a little bit down the line.
[00:23:55] Where's the money coming from McFadden?
[00:23:57] Where is it?
[00:23:58] Who are the power leaders,
[00:23:59] the Democrat leaders in this county who are propping him up?
[00:24:04] They all know this is going on.
[00:24:06] Who is it?
[00:24:06] Because I don't think it's just McFadden that has to go.
[00:24:09] I think it's those people that have to go,
[00:24:10] especially if they're among the Mecklenburg County commissioners or whatever positions of power they might be in.
[00:24:17] And that's what,
[00:24:18] that's the question I have.
[00:24:19] Yeah,
[00:24:19] there are some,
[00:24:20] no,
[00:24:20] there are some county commissioners who are supportive of McFadden.
[00:24:24] At least they were until this story dropped and maybe they won't be anymore.
[00:24:27] But they're,
[00:24:28] but not all,
[00:24:29] not all of them are supportive of him.
[00:24:31] So,
[00:24:31] and that's fine.
[00:24:33] I think,
[00:24:33] and again,
[00:24:34] I'm so,
[00:24:35] you know me,
[00:24:36] I have a big mouth.
[00:24:37] I'd be the first one,
[00:24:37] but you know what?
[00:24:38] I don't want,
[00:24:39] I don't want like police stopping me.
[00:24:41] I don't want to,
[00:24:42] to your point,
[00:24:44] how are normal people going to step up?
[00:24:45] Because I don't want that coming down on me.
[00:24:48] But,
[00:24:49] you know,
[00:24:49] if I go to a county commissioners meeting and say,
[00:24:52] who,
[00:24:52] you know,
[00:24:53] who among you supports him?
[00:24:54] Shame on,
[00:24:55] what do you think?
[00:24:56] I know what's going to happen to me.
[00:24:57] And I don't want to go through that.
[00:24:59] That's the,
[00:24:59] that's the dilemma.
[00:25:00] The one thing that we can do is Republicans can register as Democrats,
[00:25:06] vote his,
[00:25:06] you know what the hell out,
[00:25:08] and then go back and re,
[00:25:09] uh,
[00:25:09] re-register as Republican.
[00:25:10] I would just say,
[00:25:11] right.
[00:25:11] You could just register as unaffiliated and then you could pick whichever,
[00:25:15] yeah,
[00:25:16] whichever primaries you want to vote.
[00:25:17] And that's what I do.
[00:25:18] That's what I did last time.
[00:25:19] Jerry,
[00:25:19] I appreciate the call.
[00:25:20] I did.
[00:25:20] I voted in the Democrat primary last time around,
[00:25:23] what,
[00:25:23] two years ago with one race in mind,
[00:25:28] this race,
[00:25:29] the sheriff's race.
[00:25:30] Um,
[00:25:32] because either of the other two candidates running against him in that Democrat primary would have been better sheriffs.
[00:25:38] Gina Hicks was my pick.
[00:25:40] And no,
[00:25:41] it's not,
[00:25:41] I'm not endorsing.
[00:25:42] I didn't endorse her or anything like that.
[00:25:44] She was just a more qualified candidate.
[00:25:46] Knew what she was doing and had the trust and respect,
[00:25:50] uh,
[00:25:51] and credibility,
[00:25:52] um,
[00:25:53] after running the jail and working with the sheriff's office and working with multiple agencies and stuff.
[00:25:58] She had a reputation,
[00:25:59] um,
[00:26:00] for good work and good public service.
[00:26:03] She would have been a far better pick,
[00:26:05] but McFadden won.
[00:26:08] I guess it was because of his book mobile.
[00:26:10] Back to the phones.
[00:26:11] I go,
[00:26:12] here's Jeff.
[00:26:13] Hello,
[00:26:13] Jeff.
[00:26:13] Welcome to the show.
[00:26:15] Hello.
[00:26:16] Hope everything's going well.
[00:26:17] Yes,
[00:26:17] sir.
[00:26:18] I want to comment on the,
[00:26:18] uh,
[00:26:19] sheriff's situation,
[00:26:20] which is fixing to get way,
[00:26:22] way worse.
[00:26:22] Oh,
[00:26:23] very soon.
[00:26:23] I'll tell you why.
[00:26:24] Uh,
[00:26:25] friend of mine had worked there 32 years,
[00:26:28] way high up.
[00:26:29] I'm talking about,
[00:26:30] I can't say where,
[00:26:31] because then I'll give it away.
[00:26:32] Yeah.
[00:26:33] Way up in the ranks,
[00:26:34] been there a long time career person there.
[00:26:38] And the stories of the abuse that was given to a lot of the,
[00:26:42] just the people that work there and some of the deputies is horrendous.
[00:26:46] Very,
[00:26:46] very racist,
[00:26:47] a lot of racist stuff.
[00:26:49] And there's actually going to be video hidden.
[00:26:53] Camera video of some of those altercations coming out.
[00:26:56] Possibly next week.
[00:26:57] I'm told I've watched it and that'll be the end of this year.
[00:27:01] You've seen video.
[00:27:04] Yes.
[00:27:05] Hidden camera video,
[00:27:06] hidden camera video of the sheriff.
[00:27:10] uh,
[00:27:11] yes,
[00:27:12] uh,
[00:27:12] degrading different people.
[00:27:14] And they've got tired of it.
[00:27:15] This,
[00:27:16] this person,
[00:27:17] 32 years could not work,
[00:27:19] could not work for this person.
[00:27:20] I mean,
[00:27:21] for the sheriff and had to,
[00:27:23] had to move on.
[00:27:24] I mean,
[00:27:25] that's,
[00:27:25] and wanted to work,
[00:27:26] you know,
[00:27:26] a few more years was really way into retirement.
[00:27:29] Wanted to work a few more years,
[00:27:30] but,
[00:27:30] uh,
[00:27:31] the tension and the degrading was so bad.
[00:27:34] It was insane.
[00:27:36] So what kind did see that?
[00:27:39] No,
[00:27:39] I'm sorry.
[00:27:40] Go ahead.
[00:27:40] Sorry.
[00:27:40] Go ahead.
[00:27:41] No,
[00:27:42] go ahead.
[00:27:43] Just a video.
[00:27:44] Just talking about how,
[00:27:45] you know,
[00:27:45] uh,
[00:27:46] I can't get into details,
[00:27:47] but about how you're,
[00:27:50] uh,
[00:27:51] you're just worthless.
[00:27:52] Uh,
[00:27:52] some of that,
[00:27:53] uh,
[00:27:54] you're the wrong color for this position.
[00:27:56] A lot,
[00:27:57] a lot of that.
[00:27:58] And that's about as far as I go without giving anything away,
[00:28:00] but you're going to see that if they release it,
[00:28:03] uh,
[00:28:03] they're scared to release it,
[00:28:05] obviously,
[00:28:05] because it's going to turn into a huge,
[00:28:08] huge problem,
[00:28:08] but they're trying to position it.
[00:28:11] So there's no way it'll track back to who's releasing it.
[00:28:15] What is the,
[00:28:16] you know,
[00:28:16] you know,
[00:28:16] it was going to come out.
[00:28:17] I mean,
[00:28:17] you know,
[00:28:18] somebody has it,
[00:28:19] but the,
[00:28:21] uh,
[00:28:21] it's a very dangerous thing to release.
[00:28:24] You don't want to be on that list.
[00:28:25] But when you get pulled over,
[00:28:26] I can tell you that.
[00:28:28] Um,
[00:28:29] and there is one of those lists.
[00:28:30] So you don't want to be that person.
[00:28:33] So that's all I really know.
[00:28:35] I want to share that with you.
[00:28:36] So when you see it coming out next week,
[00:28:39] so,
[00:28:40] uh,
[00:28:40] you mentioned there was video of,
[00:28:42] of a physical altercation.
[00:28:45] No,
[00:28:45] verbal,
[00:28:46] verbal altercation.
[00:28:47] Okay.
[00:28:47] But talk about,
[00:28:48] you know,
[00:28:49] you can't,
[00:28:49] one of them was like,
[00:28:50] you can't do this.
[00:28:51] What do you think you're doing?
[00:28:51] Who do you think you are?
[00:28:53] I'm the sheriff.
[00:28:54] And that's the way it is.
[00:28:56] Uh,
[00:28:57] you know,
[00:28:57] those kinds of things.
[00:28:58] Right.
[00:28:58] And some,
[00:28:59] some racial slurs mixed in there,
[00:29:01] which was a several minutes of it.
[00:29:03] And,
[00:29:03] uh,
[00:29:03] you know,
[00:29:04] people are not going to put up with it.
[00:29:05] And they're,
[00:29:05] they're going to,
[00:29:06] they're going to spill the beans eventually.
[00:29:08] And that's what's,
[00:29:08] what you're going to see.
[00:29:09] And once somebody does it,
[00:29:11] you know,
[00:29:12] you know,
[00:29:12] good.
[00:29:13] Well,
[00:29:13] there's more video out there.
[00:29:14] Well,
[00:29:14] and audio,
[00:29:15] audio,
[00:29:16] I don't believe it could be,
[00:29:17] could be altered,
[00:29:18] but video,
[00:29:19] you really,
[00:29:19] you really can't do that that much.
[00:29:21] Right.
[00:29:22] And that's what I think is why it's so important that,
[00:29:25] uh,
[00:29:25] the chief deputy,
[00:29:26] Kevin Canty has quit and done it in the way he did it.
[00:29:29] I think the point is to empower other people that have similar stories and accounts to,
[00:29:36] to encourage them to,
[00:29:38] to rally because the public,
[00:29:40] we don't work in the sheriff's office.
[00:29:42] We don't know this stuff.
[00:29:43] And if we're not told what's going on,
[00:29:45] then we can't help the people that are working there to work in better conditions.
[00:29:50] Well,
[00:29:50] it,
[00:29:51] well,
[00:29:51] I can tell you this,
[00:29:51] it is not the chief deputy that's going to be,
[00:29:54] uh,
[00:29:54] releasing this.
[00:29:55] It's not right.
[00:29:56] It's a hundred percent,
[00:29:56] not him,
[00:29:57] but I can tell you this,
[00:29:58] people are scared.
[00:29:59] I mean,
[00:30:00] when they get these positions and when you have somebody like the sheriff who thinks he's above all,
[00:30:04] right,
[00:30:05] he might be a nice man,
[00:30:06] a family man.
[00:30:07] I don't know him really personally,
[00:30:08] but they get in these positions and they take this racial stuff in a different level.
[00:30:15] And that's exactly what happened.
[00:30:17] You do not want to be involved.
[00:30:20] And sheriff corruption.
[00:30:21] Right.
[00:30:24] uh,
[00:30:24] I bet just telling you,
[00:30:25] and that's why you're not seeing anything yet,
[00:30:27] but you're going to,
[00:30:28] once somebody does it,
[00:30:29] it'll all come out.
[00:30:30] Just like they always said,
[00:30:32] Donald Trump did this.
[00:30:33] Donald Trump did that video after another.
[00:30:35] And that's what you're going to see.
[00:30:36] But this time it's going to turn into a resignation.
[00:30:40] Well,
[00:30:41] we'll see firing or something.
[00:30:42] Yeah.
[00:30:43] We'll see,
[00:30:43] Jeff.
[00:30:43] I do appreciate the call.
[00:30:45] This is what's called the preference cascade.
[00:30:48] Uh,
[00:30:48] you know,
[00:30:48] when the dam breaks,
[00:30:49] then it's just,
[00:30:50] it's a deluge.
[00:30:51] All right.
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