Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and thank you for tuning into another episode of the official Dom J Radio Show. However you're listening, whatever digital streaming platform you're utilizing, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for liking the show, thank you for sharing, thank you for subscribing. We have a special guest on this episode, I'm definitely looking forward to the conversation I am having with her.
We also have a other number of guests coming up in some future episodes. So if you haven't caught up on some of the episodes in the past, definitely take time to go back and review the catalog. I went for four during the month of March, took the first week really of April off to celebrate my brother JJ and Janique. We were getting married, so shout out to them who had a lovely, lovely wedding in Dallas, Texas got C friends and family, got to see moms and the in-laws as well.
So it was a really beautiful time, a very blessed occasion, a very special celebration. So definitely wanted to send a shout out to them as they begin their journey in being newly wedged. Definitely loves seeing that black love. So we'll jump into everything on the show after this brief message.
Ladies and gentlemen, on the show today, we have a very special guest. I'm honored to have one of the brightest young black sports reporters out here in Florida. Joining me on the show, a Miss Angel Wells. How are you doing today?
Doing well, doing well can't complain. So just please introduce yourself to the pod, tell them a little about who you are and how you've gotten into the sports journalist. I'm from the ESPN Sports broadcaster, so I knew that coming to UF-BAD gave WVN a possibility to lead me to my journalism endeavors. Okay, that's pretty dope.
I have that vision from a young age and a really see-it-through to fruition. I always admire people like that, people like yourself and doctors and lawyers, people who knew what they wanted to do and then end up doing exactly that. So that's beautiful. Of course, of course.
With 2020, I know last year was pretty crazy and hectic for everybody and I know the pandemic caused a number of changes. From your perspective, how did the industry sort of change for you or around you? Just so much reporting, even at 10th in person for sports journalism. So interviews all going on Super Bowl and for the College Football National Championship this game and just interviewing those players all for you.
It's definitely a good game to you, but I honestly think it'll be something that is used in Florida. Yeah, and that was going to be something I spoke about because of course in prepping for today, looking at your content and just seeing, you know, you had interviews with players, like you said, in a national championship game from Ohio State and from Alabama. And you're speaking with some of the most high profile NFL athletes, including the homes, clients that were telling, I'm like, Evan's Brady Gronk, all the big names basically. So what was that experience like?
Because again, I know you've done it in person for Pro Bowls in previous years, but this year it was virtual. And I just raised the range of hands. I pressed the range of hands. And there was like Angel Wells from any of the sports.
I was like, oh shoot, and then next thing you know, the question I asked him, it's a feature on sports center. It was crazy. And you know, like you said, the home's all those guys, like I genuinely did not know I was just there prepped. It was like, I was racing like it was just like, you know, a real experience.
Yeah, that's pretty dope. So I mean, what are your thoughts on how you see the sports industry returning to normal? If even obviously I know there's going to be a new normalist sort of everybody's calling it. Do you think it'll happen sooner or later this year?
Because I know they're starting to have fans in some of the stadiums and stuff like that. What's your outlook on it from that perspective? I know some people are returning to in-person internships and stuff like that, but some are storming virtual games at the NABJ conference this year that was supposed to be in Houston, Texas in New Texas. And that's your biggest, but this year it's Houston.
They said this year will be made virtual as well. So I think people are still being cautious as far as stadiums. I hope that they just announced here at UF yesterday or two days ago that our athletic directors hoping for a full capacity stadium in the fall and a lot of other schools in the SEC are doing that as well. I don't know if you saw the Buffalo Bills yesterday.
They announced that they want to have full capacity stadium in advance, but they have to show all proof of vaccination. So I think it's like things as far as like, you know, everybody needs to be vaccinated or maybe you need to show proof of testing that you do for COVID. But I do think the fall 2021 will look more normal because of this vaccine. Okay.
Yeah, no, I could definitely see that because I know some of the chatters about having vaccine passports and all of that. So it feels like I just recently went through the vaccination experience myself. So I figured it'll just be something I carry in the future when I'm going to stuff basically like a driver's license. Treat yourself.
Yeah, for sure, for sure. So what's some advice you have for other young black women trying to break into the sports journalism industry because I know like not everybody ends up on ESPN and Fox, but seeing yourself already sort of in those spaces and working with those sort of networks. What's something advice you pass down to future generations. Yeah.
So, I definitely appreciate that perspective and the insight in just thank you, of course, for coming to the show and spending that time with me today. Thank you for educating obviously myself on and given some insight into the sports journalism world and the audience. I know they'll appreciate this as well. Please tell the people where they can find you on all those social media platforms.
No, thank you for your time and I look forward to seeing all the wonderful and exciting words that you'll be doing in the future. Thank you. The former Minnesota police officer who murdered Dante because that's basically what that was. Miss Kimberly Potter, who resigned earlier this week, turned in a badge on Tuesday and posted $100,000 bond hours after her arrest on Wednesday, recently appeared for the online video hearing with her lawyer in the office.
Of course, the family wants full accountability for Dante's death. And as you know, if you've been on the Internet or seen anything, her statements immediately after it was going for a taser and not her block. And so you just have those in the moment reactions where if you're a trained professional trained to carry firearms, munitions, anything that has the capacity to sort of stopping power, if you will, to end a person's life as needed, especially in that line of duty because of course we respect police officers we respect firemen for, you know, putting their lives on the line we respect our armed forces for being willing to put their lives on the line, but in the same capacity we have to hold them to certain standards for a trained officer to say that she confused her taser with her block is just indefensible in my estimation, because one, there's typically a fail safe, they're on two different sides of your body for starters guns typically on the left from these positions. The tasers on the right.
So boom, okay, so you know you got to remember what hand do I keep typically on my weapon versus what hand do I keep by the taser associating your left and your right hand so we have that sort of delineation where okay you'd expect that. Okay so again when you're getting ready to launch a gun there's typically again the trigger you've got to know how to pull said trigger when you're putting your finger on it if there's a fail safe or whatever sort of release you have on said weapon I'm sure that's going to carry a certain weight to it obviously because again we're talking about a weapon that has a mission has ammo in it so it's going to be heavier than a taser. Pretty standard taser you know not going to be anywhere near comparison in so far as the weight between the two. So again man that was just a pretty crazy as statement I thought for for somebody to come out and say I just sort of mixed up the weapon I was trying to resolve this traffic stop for yes it turns out.
They pulled him over for what was an expired vehicle registration tag and then of course once you pulled over then they run your stuff they run your information they found he had an outstanding warrant for his arrest on a misdemeanor firearms offense it appeared from the video according to the city's police chief that was as her training officer that she must stuck her gun for a taser. So again and that's just pretty wild in my estimation before the hearing members of the right family and their lawyers gathered at the church in a Minneapolis because of course oddly enough in the midst of the Derek Chauvin trial for his murder of George Floyd Minneapolis decided they're going to continue wilding out in the Brooklyn Center which is outside of that it's a Minneapolis suburb. So apparently I guess Minneapolis y'all just still wilding even in the midst of a trial for similar sort of murder. The last few days everybody has asked me what we want to see happen right some other Katie Wright said I do want accountability 100% accountability but even when that happens if that happens we're still going to bury our son.
And it gets no real than that man I mean like I said the shooting of right spark nightly demonstrations and civil unrest is passed weekend the Brooklyn Center which is just miles from the courthouse where a white former Minneapolis policeman is standing trial a murder charges over kneeling on the neck of George Floyd from last year as we all know and that was over the suspicious passing of a bogus $20 bill you've had about 400 demonstrators even just last night gathering outside the Brooklyn Center Police headquarters many other lighting candles at dust some individuals in the crowd shouting taunts at the sheriff deputies or national guardsmen that were posted outside of a double barricade of concrete and chain link fencing in front of the building so you know how they feel they are so scared but they got to do all that protesters talk smarter bottles and other objects that would barricade periodically but as Arkansas and Tim P.M. curfew near the crowd was dispersing and it had been smaller than it had been in the earlier part of the week so this is again another one of those situations where we have it on film got it on wax got it on record on video in the video she can be heard potter that is this is murder because that's what I'm calling her murder somebody she can be heard a taser taser she draws her gun and opens fire on right in his car after you're just broken away from a pillow officer trying to handcuff then she's yelling out holy shit I just shot so I don't see how I was your drawing from your hip a gun how you don't feel that doesn't feel like a taser again man we were talking about you know this instance was a single gunshot wound to the chest and homicide he died obviously getting shot in the chest there how you thought that was a taser friend I'm not sure I say friend facetious if convicted which we all obviously hope she is she faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine her lawyer did not respond to a request for comments before hearing Benjamin Crump, obviously a high profile lawyer is the lawyer for the right family said Trump, obviously a high profile lawyer. He's the lawyer for the right family, said the shooting reflected a broader problem of law enforcement in the US using excessive force and having a propensity to over-police marginalized minorities, especially black men. That's coming from Reuters.
And so I just wanted to speak on that because obviously I want to send my thoughts and prayers to the right family. And I hate that even having to be speaking on it, hate to be having to give out more thoughts and prayers because again, it's just senseless gun violence in the sense of people in positions of power abusing said power. People that are supposed to be responsible held to certain standards wanting that standard lowered when they make these sorts of mistakes. When I really feel like, no, man, if you're in this sort of capacity, we have to hold you to the highest standards, your level of standards that we have to hold you to are higher than ordinary civilians, because you're a trained professional supposedly a trained professional.
So when mistakes are made in the medical field by those sorts of doctors, surgeons, malpractice suits follow man, because you fucked up, let's just call it a buck, you fucked up and you need to pay for it, man. You're playing with people's lives or you're ending people's lives in certain cases. And so I hope the full extent of justice that can be afforded to the right family is afforded to them. But of course, obviously that doesn't bring back the son that they lost.
So I just wanted to speak on that because obviously as a black man in America, you hate to see this sort of bullshit continue. But these are the days and times that we live in, which is why I always tell you I'm a stay woke in these police encounters, man. If you're trying to get home safely, you know the sorts of steps you have to take moving slowly, not making too many motions here there, even though you may be given, you know, contrasting instructions like provide me with your license and registration, but put your hands on the dashboard type of shit. And it's even happening to army lieutenants, man.
We have another video of the police while in against somebody in uniform. Tays in this man and he's saying he's afraid to get out of his car and the officers responding that he should be. It's just absolutely insane, bro. The police are wild in the fuck out and police reform again, it just comes back to it to where civil servants are forgetting that their civil servants, you know, that they're people to be held accountable, that they're people to serve said people that are living in these streets that are living in their communities.
And if you don't know the people in your communities and why are you working in said communities, there's a certain amount of relativity and difference that comes from people understanding the people that are in said communities. But that's all another issue, man. We'll get into that another time. Thank you for listening to the official Don Jay radio show.
The channel features artistic originals, special guest features discussing education and culture. And my takes on the latest news and sports subscribe to official Don Jay on word present YouTube for more. Ladies and gentlemen, there you have it. Episode 31 of the official Don Jay radio show.
Thank you to our special guests, angel wells for stopping by and talking sports journalism with audience again. Many thank yous to you. As always, y'all, thank you for liking. Thank you for sharing listening, subscribing to the show as we continue to grow.
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