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minute continuance, but today allegedly is the day. Today is the day he will be in court and on that as attorney Steve Gooden on the show on seven hundred WLW Steve, welcome, how are you look?

But how does misinformation the prosecution failed to manage become grounds to delay a defendant who is ready for trial.

I mean, what they've got to show here is kind of weird. So disorderly conduct in this case is defined and I quote by engaging in fighting or threatening harm, by making unreasonable noises or using offensively coarse language or gestures. And in order to get the more serious form of it that actually carries jail time, I mean, typically it's just a payout ticket. You have to show that there was persistent conduct.

case with the video alone. Now that said, his lawyers said he's going to argue self defense, you know, because he says he has been he was struck at least twenty eight times and allegedly had some cognitive issues right afterwards. And I guess he did give some statements to the police, but he's going to argue I think that those statements were affected by being hit in the head repeatedly. And also I'm assuming his lawyer is going to go here.

If I were his lawyer, I'd be going very heavily into the decision to charge mister Travinsky because he is listed as a victim and witness in multiple felony cases from the other individuals who struck he and this lady known as Holly, who was knocked unconscious and beaten very badly. So he is both a victim and now a very and a witness and now a defendant. And he was only charged many, many many months later after there have been press conferences and so forth, and prothlague game in

Lynch and some leaders in the black community. You thought that he needed to be charged based upon seeing the videos. So there is some stink on the case from that point of view as to whether or not he was capegoated. So I think you've got a lot for this jury to consider. I feel sorry for this jury because they probably got him paneled their dead at the courthouse, thinking my god, we may have a homicide trial or some

serious case involving a you know, a large lawsuit. This is going to be fascinating, and instead they're going to be dissecting a street brawl from different different angles for three or four days.

you never know. And there is a question as to how much the judge is going to let the attorneys get into that kind of background about how it was charged, and how much the jurors are.

afield of the law. It's really hard to apply the law and these kind of misdemeanor decisions because are kinds of cases because you know, engaging and fighting.

the aggressor. No one ever apologizes for these things. Same thing here is that it looked like, initially from the citizen video from the street videos, that it was Alex Stravinsky as the guy who committed the assault, when it turns out he was assaulted twenty eight times prior, including Holly. And the end result is, well, you know, we had all these people step up and say, hey, listen, you

charge everybody else weren't charging the white guy. And of course when the truth came out from the state a different story, no one apologized, and we've delayed this trial now forever. And I think that's part of it as well, because history makes your memory a little bit foggy, right, So all those things aside this charge here that ale Stravinsky was the aggressor, it turns out he was attacked.

That's even backed up by the state. The state's on timeline shows that how does that charge survive the self defense argument?

I have seen. Again, I caution people all the time that these videos we see on Facebook and Twitter, you know, are often you know, selectively posted, edited and and and often don't have the full context of what happened. But there is this issue of what they're calling quote end quote the slap.

you know, in the context of what happened. So I know a lot of very smart and experienced people looked at that particular part of the video and found it to be not something that would rise to the level of criminal conduct, particularly in the case of a guy who was the victim of a serious assault, and a

felony level assault at that by a large crowd. So but that, I think you're going to hear a lot of talk about this slap and where he looked as though there was a brief moment where he was at least in the clear and away from these individuals and then sort of re engaged. I think that's ultimately what they're going to have to hang their hat on for the prosecution. It's not much, and I do think most people are going to look at this fairly and say,

you know, there's nothing here. But again, and that said, you know, there may be other you know, the live witnesses are going to provide different contexts. We don't know what was said between these individuals. There have been all kinds of allegations and hints that racial slurs were being thrown around. We don't know that for a fact. That may change kind of how some folks look at this. I mean, there are there's an argument that that is

exceptionally disorderly. We do have this kind of concept of fighting words in Ohio. But also it's very interesting. I do think because of our new stand your ground laws. You know a lot of folks talk about those in the gun context, but they also sort of apply here. He doesn't really have a duty to retreat anymore. There used to be this argument in Ohio law for self defense that if you were under attack, you know, you did have some sort of duty to retreat.

a being in that fight and thrown the punch. He's a victim in this case, as well as a defendant. How hard is that for the prosecutor to not violate his constitutional rights. That's a pretty it seems to me to be a pretty narrow window to negotiate this.

ones bringing case. But the other prosecutor's office, hamilicuty prosecutor's office, are prosecuting all the other folks involved in this fight because there's charged with felonies. So there is some some real tension there. It's like, you know, the city is prosecuting one of the key witnesses in the counties cases.

So that's a that's a problem number one. Number two, I would predict that if he is acquitted by this jury, that he probably already has counsel lined up to look at a potential malicious malicious prosecution lawsuit and or a civil rights claim, basically saying, look, I was prosecuted for political reasons. I really didn't have a good faith basis to bring this, and the city may be in a position to pay out yet.

pretty ugly. Does that implicate the mayor to some degree or at least the administration, because typically the mayor will isolate himself and insult himself rather with the people like sure along and other underlings that'll take the bullet for him,

so to speak. But does that turn around to be problematic from a civil rights violation for the mayor of the City of Cincinnati, going, Hey, if it's proven that we were able to influence the arrest and prosecution of Alex Stravinsky, then of course that's a civil rights violation there. That's a pretty serious charge against officers of the City of Cincinnati, the mayor notwithstanding.

to take depositions. And if, as one presumes, the city manager and or the mayor were involved in any way shape or forming the decision to charge Alex Treminsky, that's going to come out and that is inappropriate, I mean by any standard. I mean, they're not supposed to be under our charter form of government. You know, the police officers are supposed to be able to work independently and

without political pressure. And if he can show that political pressure, that is a real problem, not just in terms of civil liability and monetary damages. That's a real problem politically, and it's a real sign of just how things may have very well, really broken down by this. And you know, it sometimes can be a very minor thing like a misdemeanor. This misdemeanor charge. You know, there are over I think ten to fifteen thousand misdemeanors filed every year, you know,

in Hamilton County. But one of these, this little thing, this little tiny charge, it typically doesn't carry jail time, could have huge ramifications down the road if it leads to a lawsuit that Chols there.

and the courts are trying to shut this down. We'll get it that next on the show seven hundred wl Here we go slowly on seven hundred WLW.

in fan Uh. It's an interesting, interesting paradox. So this is in Italy, but of course it's going to have repercussions here in the state. So regulators in Italy are investigating Sephora and benefit and I know Sephora, but I don't know what benefit is. Nonetheless, they're cosmetic companies, and the abligation there is that they are doing something called cosmeticaurexia cosmeticourexia, which is a cross between cosmetics and anorexia. So wait, eyeliner makes you thin. No, no, no, no, no,

they're complaining. They complain is that they are targeting children in their marketing by having influencers, literally young micro influencers marketing products to young people to encourage them to use cosmetics. And we're talking about kids under the age of ten, under the age of ten for seerms and masks and anti aging creams and all this stuff. And I've always push back this as the confusion that men largely have

about women with your fascination with shoes. Although a lot of guys like you know, dunks and stuff like that. So all right, guys are the shoe thing, but the makeup thing. I don't understand why it takes four hours to put megabond, Like, what are you trying to cover up? People have taken a lot less time to try and cover up murders they've gotten away with than to what your makeup on. Don't know why it takes that long

and the other consideration does it actually work? So if you watch daytime TV at all, you're in a data with commercials for all these new state of the art beauty products that are going to make you look younger and make you feel younger, and it's going to delay aging. And I would say if that were successful, If that were successful, we wouldn't need more new products, would we. They're selling you something that basically doesn't work or make

you feel better about yourself. What I'm all about? That's fine?

of thing. So Sephorah, the tween Sephora obsession didn't come from nowhere. It came from mom and dad. Is almost always the case, is how did they turn out this way? Well, because we let them. They watched us and mimicked it. But you know, the idea that a as crazy it might sound outside of a Jean Benet like beauty pageant contest and six years old wearing full makeup, which somebody blinks and I had, I think that whole pageant thing is really creepy.

You know, it's up to the parent to navigate that. And I think that's just equally just you know, it's just creepy, isn't the whole makeup on a five year old? But historically you could see where we are today. It's not like, oh my god, it's so different today than it was when we were kids. Not really simply it's just the newest thing. I mean, you go back to what the nineteen twenties when you had flappers, and that

was literally the first big movement in America. There were many, but the first big movement in modern era of feminization and also women gaining autonomy and having saying how they look and not know necessarily pretty much doing their own thing, and so somewhat of a sexual revolution of nineteen twenty. So you had flappers and the beauty is responts because rouge and lipstick became like an identity. It was a

thing in the nineteen fifties. If you look at some pictures of women in the nineteen fifties, like model types, it's incredible how their waiste to hip to bust ratio is insane, like Barbie, like the hourglass figure. In the sixties and seventies, thinness was in, like the twiggy look, and girls started counting calories and dieting at a very

very young age. In the eighties, the hair got much bigger and supermodel set like an impossible genetic baseline, and the two thousand surgery came along, and so changing your face and your body was new and peterre like, I don't think you know, God didn't make you that way you need And now today it's like, wow, I'm just going to go in for a little procedure here. And

then you factor in social media. In the twenty tenths of this whole thing, and that just weaponizes all of it, delivers that right to your phone, and that would influence kids too, So you know millennials and now gen zers, you know, the digital natives, if you will, it's really nothing new to their offspring. So a nine year old buying anti aging serum because the algorithm told her she shouldn't be afraid of her own face it. You know,

it passes the sniff test right, it checks out. And the direction is travel is it's always been geared towards younger girls and higher standards, and Italy is just drawn a line in the sand. I guess, go No, it's got to stop because you can't sell beauty products anti aging creams to an infant. Well from the minute you come out where you have that new baby smell right out of the showroom, if you will, we start aging now we grow, yeah we do, but it's part of

the aging process. So you know, we recognize eating disorders as a cultural problem, complex one at that, and it took decades too. I don't know if we sorted that out, but I guess you don't hear about anorexia as much anymore.

I'm sure it occurs, but we accept it, there's streaming for it, and the diet industry prayed on what women's in security and impossibly high standard, manufactured standard marketing that no one could meet, and then sold a solution to it, which is why you know we see every other commercial on TV is for a diet product.

but we're inside that same warp culture. You know, if mom normalizes her own face as content, I don't think we're realizing that her daughter wants to do the same thing, and you know they the market is going to go after that, because hey, now we've got a new audience of buyers and consumers of makeup and beauty products that we didn't have before. It's like, you know, we're targeting sixteen plus year old girls and now we can go

six to sixteen and other markets blowing up. So you know, we spent one hundred years lower in that age which girls are taught their natural appearances is inadequate. And Italy just looked at a nine year old buying anti agent agreement said enough of this. Again, it's Italy their dynamic

and their version of democers as much from our. But I don't know, we're still debating it, like at some point are there going to be procedures You may lab with this, but I think in the future you're going to be looking at some cosmetic procedures done at a child, well not even a child, probably in utero, right while the baby is still cooking inside. Mom, it's like, yeah, we want to add dimples, and I'm sure there's going to be a lawmakers go okay, this is a bridge

too far and debated. Then you know you'll have this procedure where a surgeon can go in and create dimples on your unborn child or I don't know, some sort of alted DNA altering. I mean, it's going to happen at some point if it's not already. But that is the natural line we you know, and this is while

that's what you're talking about. Didn't happen when we were kids. Yeah, but if you remember, and if you're older too, I would have to think that your mom and dad or were particularly strict on you when it came to like ear piercing. Right now, today infants are getting the ears pierce but it's kind a big deal back in the day, or tattoos or whatever. My wife as a couple butterfly tattoos on her forearm tastefully done and it drives her mom crazy. And I think you know that generation. I'm

talking baby boomers. I don't know if she's outraged by that. That says, you know, you're destroying God gave you this body and you're destroying it, to which iod counter is like, well, you wear makeup and you have your ears pierced, and you color your hair. How is that any do That's entirely different. It's not permanent. The holes e rear are permanent. Well,

that's different. They're just earrings. Yeah, but earrings on a woman were probably I don't know how long ago earrings were a thing and when they first came out of the scene. But I would have to say, well, how's that much different? You're altering your body to put jewelry in there, so there's an element of vanity there. Well that was different, but well, of course it is, and this is different today. And so God knows what kids

are going to do twenty years from now. I don't know if I'll be around then or you'll be around then, who knows, but it'll be something else at all. Just it's another level of outrage, that's all. The kids aren't just content to do what mom and dad did. They want should take it one step further, as we did when we were kids. And that's how this whole thing works. You're supposed to offend the sensibilities to the generation before you.

But Italy, I think it's just myself personally as a parent, like, holy crap, does a nine year old need makeup?

he's doing it had to be that way with cell phones. Yeah, when twenty years ago when cell phones were still not everyone has them, or probably thirty years ago when not everyone had same thing at but a kid gets a cell phone and not everyone wants to have a phone. I remember that. My daughter going through this. Okay, well it's that age you get him a phone, and what's the right age for a phone? And well, her friends

have phones and that's how they stay in content. Not today, it's just like, well, yeah, you get a phone when you're old enough to go to school. Kindergarteners have phones for crying out loud. I know it's crazy, but again, it's because that line that keeps constantly shifting and evolving to grow that market share. And that's what it's about. All Right, we've got a time out and we've got news on the way in about ten minutes here in the Big one seven hundred ww or our buddy. It

must be lawyer day. We had good None at nine o'clock talking about the Chervinsky trial, which is I don't know what to make it.

running court case I think in the city. It seemed like it was a no one's paying attention to it, and the city I think wanted it to go away. They wanted to create it. And the same time, I'm like, well, it's got to go to trials. Is it going to make it look good now? The mayor also, by the way, with all this stuff goings on vacation, so I don't know if that's like he planned that on purposing. Okay, I'm going to misopening day, but this trial is supposed

to start. Maybe I want to be out of town for this, Maybe I do, But I know he's going to be back to help raise the transgender flag at city Hall either today or tomorrow. I believe, Yeah, I just I mean, you know, the cardboard mayor's like a cardboard cutout of a mayor essentially, it's about that deep like he's there for the photo ops, but the important stuff like crime and a text.

and punctions as well prior to what happened. But it just emphasizes we live in and you know, we live in this crazy world that's absolutely so polarized right now. You can't I don't know what we ever weren't, but you know what I'm saying, It's like, well, you know, I would never use the N word at a black You probably deserve to get your ass whoop. But at the same time, when twenty eight blows are thrown in a much much and equally horrible things are thrown at

him and his friends for no reason whatsoever. You know, racism is not a one way street. We're we're conditioned to understand that racism only occurs when it's whites who are denigrating blacks, not the other way around. And when that apple cards turned upside down, this is what you get quick time out. As I said, news happens in minutes here seven hundred W. WELLWT, you want to be an American, it's flunny here on seven hundred WALLW.

safety and failing to protect children. Now, a second phase of this trial start early May, early next month that could force design changes including age irrigation, encrypted messages, and a court appointed child safety monitor, which seems, wow, how the hell are you going to do this with a company as big as as Meta is. So that's kind of like the forty thousand foot view on this whole thing. It's something called Section two thirty, which you here brought

up all the time. It's protected platforms for something like thirty years. So walk us through exactly what that shield does. What section two thirty is and what the Planet's attorneys figured it out to get around it.

up in this thing too. So the legal theory here treat social media like it's a defective product rather than speech and using a first amendment turning all about that is a is that a solid argument?

This was asserted as a defense that both in New Mexico and the California trust is that this is beat. This is third party content that is posted not by Meta, not by Facebook, not by Instagram, but by third parties, and therefore it should be shielded by Section two thirty of the Communications Decency Act. It's very intertwined. So what the planeifs did? Let's talk about California, which resulted in a total of six million dollars in damages, three million

in compensatory damages, and another three million impunitive damages. The plane by the plaintiff was that it was the features, the algorithm, the infinite scroll, the notifications, auto play, beauty filters, all contributed to the obsess or compulsive use of the product by this twenty year old woman known as in the in the lawsuits kg M. And that that isn't

about speech, that's about product design. But it's it's a it's trickier, I think, than the tobacco cases because it does it does intertwine closely with speech, and it's it's a little hard to separate those two. There's no First Amendment right to smoke. There is a First Amendment right to speak. So I think that while the tobacco cases are a decent analogy, they're not a complete analogy. You now,

you mentioned Scott, who was interesting. So the New Mexico case was actually brought by the Attorney General of New Mexico. And in this case it wasn't so much damages, it was a fine that the It was brought under the New Mexico Computer Consumer Product Safety Statue, and that statue provided for a five thousand dollars per violation fine, so which in the New Mexico case totaled up to three hundred and seventy five million. I can't divide three hundre.

California judgment as settling the legal issue about the about Meta's liability. And it could be that in future cases it's just going to be how much damages are involved. And so that's six million dollars to quickly escalate to a billion, I mean it's not it's not outside the realm of loss ability.

before their own trials happened. There were other problems with this, including the two of the star witnesses for Travinsky. Our police detectives who investigated this case and refused to bring charges, charges that were then later brought by Adam Henny, the interim police chief now who was the captain in charge of the district at the time where this occurred. So the state is sparing him or the city of sparing him having to testify explain why he brought the charges

when his detectives did not want to. We know that these charges were somewhat suspect from the beginning because they came well after all of the other people who were charged in the beatings with felonies were charged, and came after some African American leaders in town demanded that someone they said who didn't look like them be charged as well, meaning someone who was white. And that was the charges

part against Stravinsky. There are six other defendants who are facing felonies that could put them away for a long time for beating Travinsky and for beating Holly, the woman who was attacked. Their trials are all set for May, and we believe that Stravinsky will now become a witness in those cases.

against the city for civil damage. My goodness, a lot to unpack your Brian Combs, thanks again, well, I appreciate it, buddy, Brian Colembs. The seven hundred newsroom, which by the way, is not the news. We just came in the studio here, i'd say, bringing behind the scenes here the satellite news center. I'm going to pivot for a second, guy, Jack Reiner. He's the First Amendment attorney, and we're talking about the

meta verdict and what all that means. But I got to pivot a little bit here, Jack, if you allow me that discretion. As an attorney, generally speaking here, I don't think this is surprising, but as far as the outright dismissal of the case, do you think that's that the behest to prosecutors as the judge saying this is frivolous and stupid, get out of my courtroom.

coming out of Hamiltot Court. But in that regard, I look at this and go, all right, well, it's dismissed, and that would then set up some sort of civil climate, imagine from Travinsky in that if they didn't have enough to bring this these charges, I don't make it to make it to trial, I don't select a jury for crying out loud. That give credence to the fact that you said that suggested some sort of political will power

as opposed to legal ones. That opens the city and maybe even the mayor up to a civil rights violation lawsuit, doesn't it.

happen in the breaking news. Rom I appreciate you pivoting with me. Jack Rynder, first Amendment attorney for Rookie Law. Thanks again, buddy, appreciate the insight, No problem, Take care there you go. Well, yeah, meta isn't there?

the last number of years. It doesn't seem to be working in Cincinnati with some of the crime rates, not all of them, but some of the crime rates risings, particularly the violent ones, particularly the group of assaults and the like. We saw street takeovers and everything else downtown, and we saw what happening in the opening day most recently. God knows what the summer is going to bring when

the weather actually starts to cooperate with us here. But relative to this discussion and what we just heard, the news that broke about Travinsky's charges being dismissed, and what that sets up legally speaking, the same people that scream about a biased judicial system. I don't know about you, but from my vantage point, it seems like those people

are complaining are the ones also guilty of it. We'll get into that right after a news update where we're sat and foind out the very latest from downtown next on seven hundred WLW, Scott's Flowing Show on seven hundred WWT. Always pivoting, always pivoting, because we got breaking news minutes ago.

You're here first yere on seven hundred WLW. And that was the case against Alek Trevinsky, the man charged with disorderly conduct in the July assault at Fourth and Elm, the trial that's been delayed and delayed and delayed again after a last minute continuance. Today was supposedly the day and before jury selection even began, the judge dis missed

the case. And now we're hearing it was the beause of the prosecution that again the prosecution's key witness that failed to appeer, citing fear for his safety after information let him believe the people believed to identified as an FBI informant, which they say is not true. But nonetheless that witness failed to appear, and therefore the prosecution's case

fell apart. And so I think it's probably a case of and pleating the fifth and saying, well, if I testify for the prosecution against als Stravinsky, I am now implicated in what I saw, and now I'm implicating myself here, So I think that's what's going on in this really weird case. But nonetheless, the case completely and utterly dismissed against al Stravinsky, which brings up a whole host of

other questions relative to Summer Slam Cincinnati twenty five. When you look at what just transpired here, it really is there's a lot to unpack. I know at this point because it was hell nine months ago that this crime occurred, or crimes occurred anyway, and initially at first blush, of course, it was Alice Stravinsky as the assailant dropping the end bomb, which even if you're the victim of a crime, I don't recommend doing because it can make the beating even worse.

You shouldn't use the word. But nonetheless that's what transpired. Of course, this was led prior to this, we saw Holly get smacked down, and we still don't know what she had anything to do with. It's is a woman standing there and gets sucker puncher behind, as the case

may be with these street brawls. Nonetheless, the case of Ali Stravinsky is here's a guy who was hit at least twenty eight times or he and others around him, And this all started at the club found the music festival, and they're in the VIP area at a club and a lot of African American clientele there, and a number of them were I guess maybe a few of them anyway, were hurling racial epithets and wondering what they were doing

at the Cincinnati Music festl last time I checked. Whether it's a black musician, a white musician, or any musician for that matter, music is certainly appreciated by most people. I would say, I'm a fan of some of the acts that played there as well. But it makes one think, like, well, if I'm a white guy going to what's quote unquote a black show, is that going to be a problem for me?

I would think on the part of Shavinskian's attorneys to say, look, it's pretty clear now that they didn't have a case put together. Was I prosecuted because I've out of the law, or was i prosecuted as a victim because well, I'm white and white people are always the aggressor when it comes to racially motivated crimes. Well, it's pretty clear that's not true, and we know that's not true, but that is the mantra I think, and we'll get into that

in just a second. But it was kipt Guiding the prosecutor. Assistant prosecutor for the county said his office had been working on this was back last year. They were doing a compilation of videos to turn over to the defense attorneys, and they established a clear timeline of what happened. They took the citizen video too, off the interwebs, but also there were at least two non public cameras that were capturing a timeline a little bit better, and so they're

able to piece this all together. And they discovered, of course, after the flop about hey you got to prosecute the white guy because it's racism if you don't that the slap that Alex Stravinsky threw wasn't the beginning of the fight. And now prior to that N bomb being dropped in Schevinsky's slapping, which is a misdemeanor, not a felm me by the way, the state says Jermaine Matthews was the main instigator of the man I was talking about, and he had been harassing the best victims and he was

egged on by others in the crowd. He was saying, you're at the wrong corner at the wrong party, and quote, they were going to make sure they got off that corner, and some were struck and beaten prior to the N word coming out in the slab coming out said a lot of it was ww east dug and sucker punch him behind, and Travinsky looked like a pretty good big guy, had enough of it and went and slapped this gentleman.

Now Clyde Bennett, the defense attorney I had on the show and probably had them not again as standing by the initial narrative that was started by the white guys, and his quote was a blind man conceited and never been. The city knows if you remove racing roof politics, this is a fistfight and a brawl that was fueled by alcohol consumption and that was initiated by some of the alleged victims. That's a quote of end. Well it turns

out and the case being dismissed and all. I guess we will never know the fact pattern here, but it's pretty clear that the uh, the behavior was dominantly and predominantly black folks in the crowd, and not all of them, because we saw a number of folks say, man, this is stupid. Cut this noise out. It's like anything you get a group of people together, there's knuckleheads of all colors.

But I guess that's my point is now this whole thing is set up, and this may wind up costing you even more money if you live in the city of Cincinnati. In that if this becomes a civil case, and the two detectives who refuse to testify basically for the prosecution of this game, they wind up getting called to the stand and they will they'll they'll be uh, they'll testify for the defense saying listen, there was nothing there to justify charges being filed against Alex Stravinsky. That's

kind of a smoking gun. You've got two detectives that are willing to state that and go, yeah, we didn't. We had no reason to charge this guy because he was a victim. But they made us anyway. And who's the day? How high does it go? That's the allegation will be made if this and it should go to a civil rights claim. This would be a civil case. But I don't even know the civil rights violation here. How much money is not going to cost you the

taxpayer to settle this and what is it all predicated on. Look, I'm a realist. I understand that there are a lot of white people who are racist, but I would also have to realize that a lot of Asian black and male female gays, a lot of people have issues as well. So to think that racism in this country is one side, I think that's the fallacy that this whole mess is standing upon. The narrative that black folks can't be racist is not true. It's not like whites don't have a

shortage of racism. The Klan, we've got flyers, we've got Lincoln Heights, we got the you know, the guy burning the Pride flag, anti gay. I get all that, and it's sickening because you should be junched on what you do and not who you are. But nonetheless that has always been and always will be a component of our society. I know there's people out there going, wow, it's fine, let it go. You know, we should always try to get better from one day to the next, self improvement

and such. But they have others believing there's a utopia out there and if everyone can just get along and there's no wars and no fighting, and it turns into a John Lennon song.

and possibly summer. At this point, the mayor wouldn't e of acknowledge the murder of Patrick Harringer, which really started this whole thing a year ago. The assault on Holly has just been gone by the wayside, the idea that right now. In City Council yesterday, as a matter of fact, they asked Chief Interim Chief Adam Henny what the department would look like if they took a five percent haircut.

He said, well, if we had to cut five percent of our budget roughly eleven million dollars, we would have to get rid of officers, what loss cops, laws enforcement? You know, I had Damon Lynch on the show, and one of the most vocal black leaders in the community. For sure, he saw it one way, and that is the black folks are the victim here. Well, I shouldn't

say that to be fair to the Damon Lynch. It would be more along the lines like, well, you know, we realize that there's some people involved in this, but you have to charge everyone the same. I mean, if we're the other way around there, there'd be outrage if it was a bunch of white folks beating up a black guy, and we probably meet the front line going that's wrong, you shouldn't do that. But in this case, like, well, let's say there's a nuance here. It's like, I guess

what black folks can be racist? I think we should kind of admit that not just a white thing, it's an everyone thing. Yeah, we were the rest of the community who wants to hear okay, the community what you know, you kind of lost credibility there. But we're just gonna double down and say no, no, no, no, this guy should have been charged and this is gonna be a miscarriage of justice and goes to show you how broken the system is, and so everyone will wind up leaning

into that. It's just, uh, it's just predictably insane, is what it is.

We don't know, I guess we do now that the prosecutor said, look, our witness is not going to show, so we have no choice but to ask for dismissal of this case because our key witness here doesn't want to testify because they are also charged. In What winds up happening is you have a right to not incriminate yourself under the Fifth Amendment. And I've guess that's sugguessing in my limited legal knowledge here that that's what occurred

in this courtroom. And so well, I guess we'll never know what the conclusion is, but you almost be certain that a civil suit is going to be filed on behalf of Al Stravinsky because he's been jammed up now for the better part of a year in this whole thing. And the story that just continues. And by the way, I'm gonna point this out. So the two detectives that would testify for the defense Alec Stravinsky and say, yeah, there was nothing here to charge this guy, and I

was going to sign it, and Adam Henny did. The same guy who is now the interim chief on the same day, by the way, that the contract with Frost Brown Todd expires. The city has investigating why they fired Terry Thiji in October, and here we are now almost into April. Tomorrow's April, and we're still investigating why we fired her back six months ago. Doesn't make any sense

to me, but maybe downtown it does. So now, what happens if Henny signs this If Henny signs this thing and he did, and they go, well, we've got the charges dismissed because this is political pressure. What happens to him?

Could it very well be that they decide, well, we didn't fight anything on on Thiegi, they will too, because the attorneys came out and pretty much said that already to take the take it out of play and maybe tamp down expectations there, but why not bring Fiji back van and Henny is signing arrest words that were motivated politically. The whole thing stinks, is what it does. And the bigger question, the bigger thing is I think we deserve

better than this. Is Cincinnati is now. I don't live in the city per se for obvious reasons, and maybe you do, But I like to frequent downtown. I like to think it's fairly safe. I know in times you have big groups down there, there's gonna be problems, but

the problems seem to be increasing, not decreasing. And now we've got a racial opponent this whole thing that could make it worse because now you're going to have the leaders of quote unquote leaders screaming about the process, how this guy can walk away and that the system is broken and it's racist when it's clearly not. And the other element then, too, is that that then fuel more

animosity towards folks when they go downtown. This is not a good look for the city of Cincinnati, and there's a lot of repercussions that are going to be felt.

I'm guessing Willie's going to pick us up today at twelve oh six here on seven hundred ww's we continue on the Scotsland Show at five, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hund the Big one hit talk back on the iHeartRadio app So we'll continue to follow the developments here from the dismissal of the Alex Travinsky case and what all this means, because it's like an octopus, it's like a bunch of OCTOPI I guess tentacles in all directions,

the repercussions could be felt, and probably many things I even considered are part of this mix. Now that this case has been dismissed, not with prejudice, but just rather dismissed because the witnesses aren't shown up because they're locked up themselves. You got a guy who is a victim but also a defendant, and now we witness Alex Kravinsky. It's a full time job just being Alex Dravinsky. I guess now you did throw I will say, you throw the end bomb out, You're gonna get punched in the head.

on that. Look, if we're gonna stamp out racism, and God knows, in this town where we have the Freedom Center and we have marches and we have doctor Martin Luther King's statues and everything else and about quality and opportunity and all these wonderful concepts, then you got to be as outrage if not more outraged about what transpired with this case than you would with most others. But again, asking for people, or maybe not you, but others, to

be consistent in this is not going to happen. There's no consistency anymore. We've completely lost that. We get a time out and we got news. In a minutes, we'll recap this entire story. Alex Tchravinsky's case being dismissed by Judge Johnson at the behest of the prosecution because I guess the witness one of the witnesses said, I'm not showing up. I'm not going to do this because I'm going to incriminate myself. What a story on seven hundred wlwod since nonat do want.

our law law enforcement to make our city safe. We have a safety problem here already in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, and you know, ICE is just and another resource that can help us make our city favor.

active warrants on them. I mean, why are you out there defending someone who might very well be a I don't know, rapist or a murderer or you know what I mean, if you committed a serious crime.

is going everywhere else but protecting the people. You know, even you see Great Landsman has been you know, vigorous as far as taking money away from the local law enforcement for other pet projects. So we we just need to make sure that we're you know, and what I hope to do when I get to Congress is that a budget and put the tax dollars that are collected towards what is good and just and helped all American families, including the baty on our streets.

never been in trouble whatsoever. Is there a way? Is there is there a password for them in this whole thing, because I feel like that's the one being squeezed out. I think our sense of fair play as Americans says, okay, you came here illegally, but how have you conducted yourself ever since?

want in our country. So they you know, it's there should be a VA team process and that those people. But at the same time, I don't think they should get their citizenship and put be put ahead as people that are legally in the process. And I think there is room for both. I just think each case needs to be considered, you know, carefully. But what's very clear is that people that are here illegally, that haven't assimilated, that are multiple defenders of product need to go. So yeah,

so actually hear that. I you know, we're a very compassionate society. You know, we want to take care of people, and we want people to be treated with respect. And I appreciate those those immigrants that have come to our country and worked hard and become part of what makes our cities great.

if that's the government going, we don't really care. I don't know how much of this is at the feet of the immigrants now in twenty twenty six, when it wasn't a big deal ten, fifteen, twenty thirty years ago.

need to be addressed. And like I said, you know, I'm willing, you know, as a taxpayer to fund the resources, whether it be ice or you know, uh uh betteam of these other citizens that are here and been living here for a long time and our law citizens of our communities to see how they could have a past the citizenship while staying here. I think that is a totally fair thing to do. What I don't know, Scott, and maybe you do, but it's worth looking up statistics.

I don't know what the uh the ratio of those people is, but I do believe that, you know, we need to get those people a chance again. I just want to respect that. You know, we are a nation of laws and we just haven't enforced followed them for so long. We have to get back to the four component that you know. We have laws, we follow them, and we want everybody that's in our country to be following them.

So what's your plan for eliminating the irs? Holly Adams and how do you and what replaces it for that matter.

really we've overburdened them with taxation in this country. The advocate of eliminating the federal income packs, you know, I think a lot of because I do feel like I've

always enjoyed math. I love a good spreadsheet. I feel that if we go back and we look at the Constitution and we see the enumerated responsibilities of Congress and where Congress is supposed to be spending money, where our government is supposed to be spending money, we are over spending to the level that once we cross off that over spending, that we can pay for everything with tarifs,

taxes on goods and services that we're already paying. And you know, the average The median income in Cincinnati is about fifty three thousand dollars, So the income pack would put fifty six hundred dollars back in their pockets each year. That's fifty six thousand over ten years. That's a lot of money for a family that is struggling to you know, pay their energy bills.

is this banning of THC infused beverages. That was a huge boon to the beer industry, and there's fighting this in court. But simply because Mike de Wine doesn't think people should be drinking THHC, that doesn't seem limited government to me. If it's literally hundreds of thousands of people enjoy this in millions across America enjoy this beverage responsibly, why would it be up to the governor. Simply they'll take his pen and veto all this and go no, I don't like it, therefore.

want to do. But you know, to accomplish what we need to in Congress, we need about three hundred and eighty more people that's dedicated to and again not shrinking our government to what it's not supposed to be, but right sizing it.

love the Freedom Index they put out. Well, I recently looked at their and again that evaluates, just for your listeners that might not know, they go a couple of kids a year and they evaluate all the Congressmen and senators on their last ten votes and how those votes aligned with constitutional the Constitution was a constitution or not and a four hundred and thirty five members of Congress, only fifty five are getting a's or b getting eighty

percent or aligned with the constudents. That means like you just said, people sit around doing nothing, not doing the work that needs to be done to protect the American people and make things affordable gainst you know what seventeen what I say, seventeen percent eight thirteen percent, So that's thirteen percent eighty seven of Congress that both sides are getting seas and out. We're paying these people six figures about two hundred thousand dollars a year and free health

care to fail us. So we really need to step up as a country, you know, as citizens and both in people that truly understand what it's going to take to get the government out of our business and decres spending so the cost of living goes down and we have more opportunity for our family. So I'm one of those three hundred and eighty people that want the philiity to do that. But until the vote right and some constitutionalists and fisicily conservative people to Congress, it's not to

get done. And the Republicans need to replace the people in our party that are over spending and not getting the work done too. I mean, but at least you know, I know what I stand for, and I know what I want to do, and I'll align with other people. You know, Congressman Warren Davidson already has legislation that suggest, you know, repealing the sixteenth Amendment, repealing Act, and I would love to get on board with that.

you don't need to panic. I mean, there is some optimism in the markets right now, and I think every investor is really hanging on the words of Donald Trump and the Trump administration, and you know, it changes daily and it changes even hourly, and essentially, you know, the markets are feeling pretty good this morning because Trump said that, you know, we might see an end to this conflict

in Iran even before the straight of war moves is open. Now, you know, we did see a couple shipping tankers from China that we're able to get through.

Brent crude. You know, why is that a thing? Well, you know, here in the United States, we basically mark our prices to the West Texas creud, and that's what we generally see here in the United States. But the Brent crud is more of a national and global type of benchmark, and that comes from the North Sea, which is near Norway, Sweden, Finland, those types of areas, and

that's a sweeter crew that is used more globally. And so what you're seeing is is that a lot of these other nations are starting to say, hey, we have a decent amount of supply. We think that we can you know, manage a lot of this and really kind of get through it. And that's why you've seen Brent crud start to go down to one under uneath a hundred and dollars barrel, and the markets responded favorably.

leading the bigger bills at the grocery store. We're going to talk mortgage rates here in a second, and we're supposed to turn a corner this year, but now there's a big question mark there and Asia in Europe, as you mentioned too, it's kind of a black Swan event because no one's immune to this whole thing. Gods to where you're standing with Iran, everyone's getting hurt by this around the globe.

pay off for you in the long run. And so I think that's what we're seeing right now is that investors are thinking, Okay, well, the fundamentals are still good. If we can get this wrapped up, this is probably a good place to buy. And that's why you've seen the markets run, you know, a little bit yesterday, and we're starting to see that a little bit today as well.

Like the Trump administration continues to say that, you know that that's their timeline, and you know, if it does continue to continue on, you know, we can see the FED start to take notice on this. And you know, we we've heard FED chairman pout basically say, hey, we're not really you know, too concerned about it right now, but if it continues, we might have to switch gears and start to raise interest rate, and certainly that's not

what anybody wants. When we look at futures and we look at what it looks like from an interest rate standpoint, Yes, it's probably still likely that we see an interest rate cut maybe in June, maybe one or two this year. But you know, if this continues to go on and the Trump administration doesn't have a way to get out of this, we can see interstrates maybe even tick up, and you know that's going to have an impact on the housing market. That's going to have an impact on borrowing.

It's also going to have an impact on corporate spending as well, because money becomes a little bit more expensive, and you know, if that happens, we can probably see the potential for a recession risk continue to creep up as well.

much much worse. It's just a this is a classic foggle war moment, is what this is, right.

impact the civilians in Iran. And we start to hit the energy infrastructure of Iran, that will certainly impact the civilians over there. So the clock is ticking.

only down three percent for the year. And so you don't want to overreact to these types of geopolitical turmoil events because we go through these all the time. I've been doing this for twenty seven years, and I've been through a lot of it. I started in the late nineties, you know, during the tech boom and nine to eleven et cetera. You know, even more recently when Russia invaded Ukraine. You know, that's kind of a blip on the radar

right now, but that's still going on. And at the end of the day, it's about the consumer in the United States. As long as unemployment is low and we have the ability to earn a way age, you know, we're really what drives the market, Scott's and as you know, as long as we continue to be productive here, you know, small geopolitical issues really don't move the.

So you know, that big swing right now is based on you know, what's going on in the straight horror moves, the concerns with energy prices, you know, from a global standpoint, and so you know, it's it's a good example of how marcuts really try to process uncertainty in real time. And we can see this happening if you watch the markets on a daily basis, or you hear what the FED has to say, and a lot of the Fed Committee members they like to you know, have their press.

into most financial plans. You have to understand that. You know, that's something that we take into account, and it's something you should make sure that you stick to and not get caught up in the minutia of the data day headlines because it'll drive you crazy.

the markets are going to rebound quite a bit. You know, when we look at the price earnings ratio on stocks, and that's a measurement of value, and you know how expensive is the stock versus you know, what they're really earning. The forward looking pet right now is about twenty and that is a pretty good moniker of saying, hey, things

are you know, a pretty good bye right now. And so, you know, people are trying to find deals in the marketplace, whether it's a specific sector in technology or energy or consumer staples. And I think that you know, if you're not in the market, now is the time to get back in.

And really Friday is the big big one. We're going to get us hourly wages, the unemployment rate, and so that's going to be important to tell us, you know, where we are from a labor standpoint, because at the end of the day, as long as we have the ability to make money that contributes to consumer spending and also retail sales.

But hey, you know what, you got schemes I believe on Wednesday, So hey, get it done today, right or tonight? I guess I should say here on the Home of the Red seven hundred W DOWT, since that