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Murder on the Metro, Protests at USC & LACC’s Expanded LAPD Surveillance

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ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the fatal stabbing of a woman on LA Metro…PLUS – A look at the ongoing protests at USC in support of 2024 Valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, after her commencement speech was canceled AND the Los Angeles City Council’s plans to expand LAPD’s surveillance purview - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

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KFI AM sixty's later with Mokela were lived everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hopefully you had a wonderful weekend. I had a wonderful weekend. Met some CAFI listeners at the Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run. It was great being able to sit out there with you. In fact, I was out there with Kenna and her fiance and Alaska, their dog. My dog tried to attack Alaska, even though my dog, Vincent, was only one fifth the size of Alaska. But you know, that's how we get down. It's okay.

Alaska's friendly to all dogs. Even though no I said my dog was the aggressor, I admit that I owned it. He embarrassed me in the moments, like look, don't it bears me dog? And that's the one that's hyper right. No, No, that's the older, more calm one. But for some reason, I don't know, maybe Alaska looked at him the wrong way or something. It's the blue eye maybe, yeah, the singular blue eye blue eye, like who you looking at. But it was a

good day. Was nice being able to meet all of you. But now we're back and unfortunately the real world is getting in the way there's a lot of heavy news which is going on right now. We have to make sure that you are aware of If you were listening to Tim Conway Junior in the past hour, you know that he was following and passed to baton to me. We're following the story of the La County Sheriff's deputy who was shot in

the back today while waiting at a West covinat intersection. The shooting happened at about two forty five pm and West Covina at the intersection of North Baranka Avenue and East Garvey Avenue South. The good news is the deputy, a nearly twenty year veteran of the department, Deputy Acepureau, was treated at a nearby hospital and he is in stable condition. It looks that everything is going to be okay at this time. But it was an unprovoked attack. It was

a shot in the back. They are looking for the assailant. A witnesses told investigators that there is possibly a vehicle of interest, a white sedan with tinted windows that was last seen driving westbound on the Interstate ten at from Baranka Street. I know that's not a lot of information, but that is all which has been released to the general public. Sheriff Luna recently had a press

conference surprising us of this information and also the deputy's status. If there is more information which should come in, we'll make sure that you do have that, so do not feel that you are missing any part of that story. We are continuing to follow it in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom and we will have consistent updates throughout the evening. But there's also something else. I was bumping around the internet, as I usually do early in the day,

and I say this with all seriousness. Sometimes I make predictions. Sometimes I may talk about the things that I'm very concerned about, and I don't want to be right, but the available information suggests that I'm more likely right than not. Last week I went on a rant and I said, I've run out of things to say. I don't know what to say. We've had three different metro bus attacks within the space of a week, and I was out of words to say to express the amount of danger I perceived on La

Metro. I wasn't trying to be hyperbolic. I wasn't trying to be sensational. I wasn't trying to be emotional and over the top. I was trying to be fact based and dispassionate. I could not, in good conscience recommend anyone that I cared about, family member, friend, colleague getting on the Metro because I think that it's fundamentally dangerous. Not dangerous in the sense of, well, you could be anywhere anytime and get hit by a bus type

dangerous. We're not talking about random acts of bad luck. We're talking about a place which is more conducive to crime and something bad happening to you. And then Tim Conway Junior sent me the story. I had already seen it at that point, but of course by now you know of the woman who was stabbed early this morning on a Metro subway train in her neck before exiting in Studio City. She has since died of her injuries at a local hospital.

I've told you more times than not that I rode the Metro. When I did, I would get on the Blue Line in Long Beach and I'll get on maybe six thirty in the morning, and it would take me all the way to the Universal City stop. I know exactly what that stop is like because I wrote it every single day, and that's where I exited, and then I'll get off a Universal City and get the one fifty eight bus and it would take me not too far from Hollywood Way, and I'd walk

the rest of way to my job. I know exactly what that is like. If you know this story. The woman unfortunately got on in North Hollywood. North Hollywood is only one station away. She was only on the train for at most three four minutes, because that's the distance in between the stations. She was attacked on the train. From publish reports, that means she

was attacked almost instantaneously upon getting on the actual train. I don't know if the story would have ended differently if there was an actual police presence on the train. I suspect that it most likely would have. And you have to wonder at this point. I know that if you listen to the mayor's State of the City address, she'd made commentary to the fact that the trains are safe and they're improving. Well, that's factually untrue, and people, not

just me, are beginning to understand that it's genuinely unsafe. Now. The station is a busy one with commuters and tourists who come here to Universal City, and it's the Bline trains which run from North Hollywood to downtown Los Angeles and Union Station. We spoke to people today who are very concerned about safety. Is what we know is the attack occurred on the train somewhere between the last stop and here at Universal City Station. She then is able to exit

and the suspect. Suspect exits as well, but the attack does occur on the train. I'm a little bit afraid, and you're here. It on the news that something can happen, but it's surprising that it happens on our first day. The station is closed because of such a thing. I never feel safe on the chain. You have to stay very vigilant, be aware of your surroundings because there's always some sort of chaos going on. Three incidents last week on metro buses. We have one start off this week on a

metro train. This unfortunately ended in the murder of a woman in another unprovoked attack. Of course, as things happen on Metro, we will make sure that you're made aware of them, because I think an informed populace is most important, and also if you're just tuning in, we are continuing to follow the story of the La County deputy who was shot in the back while waiting at a West Covina intersection. He is presently in stable condition at a nearby

hospital, and we'll have more. If you have any information about a white sedan with tinted windows that was last seen driving westbound on it from Baranca Street in and around that time, please make sure that you inform the local authorities regarding that. It's later with mo Kelly when we come back, we're going to talk about the protests going on around the country at various universities, including USC, just over this past weekend. And like I said, I don't

like to be right about some things. But when we discuss last week, and we said that at least in defense of the university, the university didn't necessarily know where the story was going to head, what other variables there were going to be in the equation, whether the situation was going to escalate in the Middle East. Well, all of that has happened. Now, all of that, and now there is a rising element of not only anti Semitism,

but protests and arrests around the country. Wimbo Kelly one six. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app And if you just tune in. We are continuing to follow the story of the La County deputy who was shot in the back while waiting at a West Covina intersection. He is in stable condition at a nearby hospital. The search continues for the assailant, who was thought to be in a white sedan with tinted windows, was last seen driving westbound on

the I ten from Barncas Street earlier today. Obviously that why Sadan probably is not in that location now, but as updated information comes in, we'll make sure that you do have that. Just know that the KFI newsroom is on that story and we are following it. And we recently had a press conference update from Sheriff Robert Luna that was around six o'clock this evening. We don't anticipate another press conference, but if there should be one, we will bring

that to you live. And something else which is going on locally of great interests. We've discussed what's been happening at USC, the protests which have been ongoing. In fact, they were continuing over the weekend. The protesters were marching in support of the twenty twenty four valedictorian Osna to Boston. That's just one of many college protests going on around the country, some of the ones which have garnered more headlines are the ones at Columbia and Yale, both universities.

Law enforcement has had to intervene, and there have been arrests of students

who are protesting. And let me just make a brief comparison I said long ago, not in regard to this, but I'll say during the Black Lives Matter movement, you have to be very careful about who you may allow to speak on your behalf and who may become part of your protest, because it makes it very easy for forces outside and I would say people with a minority view hijack the message of your movement, of your protest, and then your

protest is perceived completely differently from maybe how you originally intended it. Now, I'm quite sure that the majority of people who are protesting, I don't know this for a fact, but I believe this. I don't have any data to support it, but I firmly believe that the majority of people who are protesting at USC are connected to the Valedictorian issue, and a smaller component of that is about the wider Israel Palestine issue. But when you go to Colombia

and Yale. I believe the predominant number of protesters are probably in support of Palestine, not pro Hamas. I think there's a distinction which must be made and should be made. They're not the same thing. Supporting Palestine in a two state solution is not the same thing as supporting Hamas and what happened on

October seventh. But there is a rising number of voices that you're hearing in interviews and then the protests which are blurring that distinction, and it makes it more difficult for the people who have a legitimate issue to raise to be heard and be heard clearly. Confrontation at Columbia police removing protesters from campus citing extraordinary circumstances. Columbia University President Manu Shaffik called in the NYPD to clear an encampment

of pro Palestinian student demonstrators. The encampment set up Wednesday morning, the same day Shaffique testified on Capitol Hill about anti Semitism on campus. We must uphold freedom of speech because it's essential to our academic mission, but we cannot and

shouldn't tolerate abuse of this privilege to harass and discriminate. In a letter to the university community, Schaffique noted protests have a storied history at Columbia, where anti Vietnam demonstrators took over buildings on campus in nineteen sixty eight, but in asking for help from the police, she said, the encampment and related disruptions

pose a clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the university. We are risking, like our academic standing, just to like to show the administrators that we are not okay with their decisions. Several demonstrators today stomping on an Israeli flag, some students saying they feel unsafe on campus. I feel as though people arekind of weaponizing antisemitism. This is where we are in America right

now. And there's something else. I don't know if someone else has said it, but I'm going to say I know universities are going to bend over backwards and be very careful about these arrests on campus, because the last thing any of these universities would want is another Kent State situation. If you don't know what that is, go back to nineteen seventy, in which some college

students were killed by National guardsmen during anti Vietnam protests. So there's a very precarious nature of how the protests are going to be conducted, how they're going to be handled. And even though students may be arrested, universities are super

sensitive to not having an escalation of that nature of that kind. If students are going to be arrested because they are interfering with classes, the student life, whe they're threatening other students, that makes perfect sense, but they don't want it to take the next step, which also goes back to the discussion

of USC and how USC was concerned about what commencement could turn into. Let's say last week you were firmly on the side of the valedictorian and said she should be able to speak regardless of what's going on in the world, and we said, wait a minute, there are other concerns here. There are

other variables in the equation which could impact a smooth graduation. If you are a trustee member at USC or the university president and you see what's happening at Yale and you see what's happening at Columbia, can you, and good conscience, proceed as if nothing is going on? Can you proceed as if it's business as usual for commencement again, because we are on an escalating trajectory, we're not on a de escalation trajectory. It is much more agitated today that

it was last week. The Middle East is much more complicated and unstable today than it was last week. And until there's an indication that is going to be moving in the other direction of de escalation and calming of tensions, I would expect all universities, inclusive of USC Columbia and Yale where they had arrests there today as well as well, I have to assume that they would move in the direction of anticipating further escalation and also in putting measures to further protect

students and the campus that comes first. That's more important than anything. And I'm quite sure someone who's on the between the age of eighteen and twenty four and I remember when I was at Georgetown University, I was much more of an activist, borderline militant, fight the power all of that. I remember the person that I was, and I was a little bit too naive to see the bigger picture of the world. It was just for me. It was right and wrong, black and white. There was no gray in between.

It was all of this or none of that, no nuance. That's how I thought as a twenty one year old, twenty year old, and then you get older and you realize that the world is far more complicated than that, far more complicated, and about much more than a singular speech by a singular student at one university. And how you may think that that's the most important thing in the world, it isn't not when you combine all the factors involved. It's Later with Moe Kelly kiff I AM six forty Live everywhere

on the iHeartRadio app. We're continued to follow the story of the sheriff's deputy who was unfortunately shot in the back in West Covina earlier today. As more information does come in, we'll make sure that you do have that, But if you're just tuning in, we want to make sure you know that we are on that story and we are continuing to follow it. You're listening to

Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six fortying. We're continuing to follow the ongoing story the La County Deputy motorcycle deputy who was shot in the back while waiting at a stoplight at a West Covina Intersection. He is in stable condition at this time, but the Sheriff's department is asking for our collective assistance. Witnesses told investigators that there is possibly a vehicle of interest, a white sedan with tinted windows, that was last seen driving westbound on it from

Baranca Street. This was around two forty five pm earlier today, but it gives us some information to follow. If you should see something, definitely say something. Contact local law enforcement. If you should see something which you may feel or know something which may be helpful in helping bring this person to justice. Also, another continuing theme on this show is the idea or issue of privacy. I have long said, and embarrassed mentioning again. I believe privacy

is an illusion. It's something that we think we have, It's something we believe is important. It's something that we would like to tell ourselves that we have, but I don't actually think we have it, especially when you go out in public. And I understand that we don't have a constitutional right to the expectation of privacy in public settings, but at the same time, you would like to believe or think that private cameras aren't being used in the sense

of law enforcement or surveillance. That has been an ongoing debate as far as whether law enforcement could and should use private cameras, security cameras, traffic cameras in the general surveillance of citizens like you and me. But the La City Council is looking to expand the LAPD Survey Len's program, and the City Council approved the motion seeking to expand this proposed surveillance program that would give LAPD real

time access to private and business security cameras. Internal and external law enforcement agencies have created facilities with access to cameras such as automated license plate readers, security cameras at private businesses and residences. Did you hear all that businesses and residences as well as existing Department of Transportation cameras installed at large intersections, and they

have put all these facilities and abilities in one particular location. Individuals and business owners would be required to opt into the program in order to give the LAPD permission to access their live footage. LAPD officials expect to fund the program using moneys from the state to address the ORGANI Retail Theft task Force. Obviously, the belief here is that this type of surveillance will help stop or prevent or solve smashing grabs, I don't know, But there are two issues here.

One whether it would actually do what it is supposedly designed to do. And how extensive would that surveillance be. Is it something that would only be used in the event of a crime in a particular location, or is it just general surveillance where they'll be able to watch all the time in the event that

something may or might happen. Let me go back to the top. As far as this illusion of privacy, I assume, especially when I'm in public, somebody something is always watching, be it a camera, be it a person, be it someone's ring device. If I'm in my neighborhood, something somebody is always watching. The question here is whether I'm comfortable with being wah watched for something that has nothing to do with me. In other words, am I being watched just because I'm out on the street, or is this

video available at all times to law enforcement? We don't necessarily know where it begins and ends. It makes me uncomfortable, not because I'm out there doing something that I shouldn't, but I don't know how comfortable any would anyone would be if they knew they were just continuously watched all the time. Do you want to be watched when you're at the bar? Do you want to be watched when you're on your front lawn sunbathing. I'm just saying hypothetically, if,

if all these cameras are connected. But there are all sorts of examples in movies where this idea is discussed. There was the movie with Gene Hackman and Will Smith, Enemy of the State. There was the movie Eagle Eye with Shilah buff They're all sorts of images. There was a TV show Mark, remember the TV show Person of Interest? Thank you very much. This is not a new idea, it's just now real and it's really happening.

And there was a portion in Batman the Dark Knight in which Alfred has access to every cell phone on the Earth and Batman uses it to track down the Joker. Oh that was Lucia's Fox. Jesus Fox. He didn't want any part of that, right, he knew about it, and he walked out of the room. It's almost as if there is something not so great about living in a total surveillance police state. Almost almost almost. I'm not necessarily sure that it will bring about the desired result as far as smash and grabs,

could it help in an overall crime sense. I don't know. I don't know. I just know that people overestimate the amount of privacy that they actually have. I think people are not really aware of how all this technology and its connection could have all sorts of unintended consequences. Remember, they were just debating I think, reauthorization of the Patriot Act and all of that on Capitol Hill. FISA, FISA, excuse me, PISA. This is all

connected. This is all absolutely connected. And if FISA makes you uncomfortable, and the opaque nature of that where you can have these warrantless searches, what do you think this is. We're not it's not right next door. No, it's in the same house. Well, I gotta tell you just a fact check here. Unless you're a foreign spy or working with them, you really don't need to be worried about PISA. But the fact that every other thing that you do in the real flesh world and online is monitored, that's

a thing. Well, you don't have to necessarily worry about PISA, but that information is still being collected and all the like for example, Carter what's his name? What Carter Page? Carter Page. Yes, I couldn't remember his last name for some reason. Carter Page was the most i'll say,

public and obvious example of how PISA can impact someone. The whole thing about PISA is it's not just the person that they're surveilling, it's the person who they may contact, the person who they come into come in contact with, the person that they may be around. Like for example, I've met Carter Page a couple of times. Don't ask it was a politicon. Okay, it was a politicon. Wow, there's even a picture with him and me on my site, mister Kelly dot com. Your social circles baffling. It's

hey, true story. You go to mister mo kelly dot com. There's a picture of me and Carter Page. You and Carter went out after the comic con and made it rain on some strippers. No, it was politicon and they were self employed models. Okay, sorry, But my point is, Mark Ronner, if somewhere down the road, my name were to come up in a report or a person who interacted with that could be disconcerting, right, That could be concerning, That could be a problem. Not that

I'm doing anything as far as international espionage. I'm just saying that we never necessarily know where surveillance begins and ends. That's all. It's Later with mo Kelly, ca if I AM six forty Live Everywhere True Story Me and Carter Page romance fellas you know, buddies. Oh, I got to hear the details of this off the Earth. We're Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app No True Story. You can go to mister mo Kelly dot com. Look in

the gallery section. There's a picture somewhere of Carter Page and be you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. And I don't know if you know this, but if you're going to see the cockpit on a plane, you can do it. If the plane is still at the gate. You know how. You get on the plane and the door will be open. You can see the pilots where they sit. You can

see all the controls. When you get on the plane. That's when you'll likely see a kid or someone be invited to the cockpit and then the pilot or the co pilot will show them where all the different buttons are. Like in the movie airplane, but you can't do it while the plane is in the air, not legally, not for commercial flight, not for a charter

flight. They're both governed by the same FAA rules in that regard. When I tell you that two pilots were suspended after allowing a passenger in the cockpit mid flight, you should be shaking your head like I am. The FAA is investigating this unauthorized in flight cockpit visit by a coach for the Colorado Rockies. It was on the Colorado Rockies team plane during what's called a United Airlines

charter flight last week from Denver to Toronto. If you didn't know that that it was dumb to do it, it was even dumber to tape it, because when you tape anything, the video is going to eventually get out. The pilots at the very minimum should have known that that pop doing it was dumb. Taping it was dumber, and then you're putting not only your own jobs in jeopardy and obviously the safety of everyone in jeopardy. But you should

have known that this is how the story was going to end. Because video surface earlier this week, I should say late last week that appears to show Rocky's hitting coach Hensley Mulins, sitting in a pilot's seat while the April tenth flight was at cruising altitude about thirty five thousand feet. As I said,

it's against FAA regulations for unauthorized people to be on the flight deck. He could be seen and heard on the video joking with other people in the cockpit, including a person in a pilots and at least one other person who does not appear to be an airline employee. So there was like more than one person hanging out in the cockpit. And just in case you were unclear about where the law begins and ends regarding FAA procedures, there's this. So we

know this is a clear violation of safety rules. How does something like this happen? Well, it is a clear violation not only of United Airlives rules, but of what we call the FAAR Federal Air regulations that prohibit any or unauthorized person in the cockpit during the flight. In fact, once that cabin door is closed and the gate pushes back, no one can get up there.

In fact, that door is locked and can't be opened. So bottom line here is those pilots are in trouble, And basically anybody who wants to do that can only do that at the permission of the pilot when the plane is on the ground and nothing is operating. So if you've got your kid with it and he wants to see the cockpit, if you ask permission, they'll let you in during the actual boarding process, at the discussion of the

pilot, and maybe after the flight. But once if that main door is closed, that's off limits until the plane is finished and at the gate. I want to reiterate to our viewers, this was a charter flight. Airlines are often hired to operate charter flights for sports, team, celebrities, et cetera. Do you think there's a spotlighting a possible lacks in regulations that we don't see in commercial flights. Well, of course there is a looser atmosphere

on a charter flight vieus. The presumption is you're in control of the plane because you paid for it, right. But you know what, the federal air regulations don't discriminate between a charter and a regular flight if it's operated by a commercial carrier. The rules apply to everybody, and that's why those two pilots have it essentially withheld from service spending this investigation. How do you not know any better as pilots. I understand that people make mistakes, but this

is not a mistake. You should know in this post nine to eleven world that you just can't let people into the cockpit mid flight. You can't do it. And then you're going to let someone or some one sore, maybe more than one vide there actually tape it, because we all know when they videotape something, it's going to be sent via a text message, it's going to be posted on social media, it's going to be shared, it's going to go beyond just the people involved. We share everything these days. We

can't keep any secrets. Of course, it was going to get out, and then, of course someone with a reasonable level of common sense would have realized, you can't do that. It's against the law. You can't do that. Ever, it's post nine to eleven. You cannot go into the cockpit in the middle of a flight for shits and giggles and just hang out

and take pictures. And there were a couple of other stories of pilots getting reprimanded and suspended for letting, like models and Instagram models sit in the cockpit. It's like, you know, everyone, I'm not even a pilot, Okay, I've never had a flying lesson in my life, and even I know that you just can't let people in the cockpit in the middle of the fight. You can't do it. Can't do it. Can If I Am six forty were live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Do you think we've got

all the answers, Well, we've got news for you, chief. No, seriously, we've got news right now. Kf I, KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live everywhere on the radio.

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